I have 64-bit Suse (with gcc-4.7.1), and tried to build a Arm cross gcc:
binutils:
../../binutils-2.23.1/configure --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi
make
make install
gcc:
../../gcc-4.7.2/configure --target=arm-none-linux-gnueabi --enable-multilib --disable-libssp --enable-languages=c,c++
make
I got the following error message:
/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ar rc libgcc_eh.a $objects
/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ranlib libgcc_eh.a
/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
/usr/local/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: cannot find crtn.o: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
It seems that the linker is not operational. I tried it on some older versions, the result is the same.
I found similar reports on the net, but those are related to older versions, and seems already resolved.