Yep, wrong CWD, thanks for the help and sorry for having to ask in the first place.

I am trying to use slacko puppy to compile C++ programs. I have the devx package installed. The test program compiled correctly. Its sole purpose was to add 3 and 4 to get 7. The output was 7. I then attempted to write something using the GNU MP libraries, the output of that was 7. My math is shaky ...