The minimum and maximum operators were never terribly portable and have been dropped by GCC 4.2. Index: langdrill-0.3/src/main.cc =================================================================== --- langdrill-0.3.orig/src/main.cc 2007-07-15 12:52:38.000000000 +0100 +++ langdrill-0.3/src/main.cc 2007-07-15 12:54:01.000000000 +0100 @@ -460,9 +460,11 @@ // keys. In such a case, we must take some precations setActiveButtons( keyTotalNr ); - // is this minimum operator portable ?? - // it should work with egcs at least !! - int cols = keyTotalNr