I guess I should have included this in my original post, sorry for the additional email:
I am running
AMD Athlon 1.5Ghz-ish OpenSuse 10.1 KDE 3.5.x XGL-Compiz NVidia GeForce3 Proprietary Drivers
Build environment is
GCC 3.4.6 ( and hopefully not using any of the usual 4.1.x )
The command I am trying to execute is
./fiasco -l hello