Trouble building GCC 2.95.2 on intel Linux as cross compiler for PPC

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 200007120134.SAA12616@homer.ka9q.ampr.org >you write:
  > When I try to build GCC 2.95.2 as a cross compiler for ppc-eabi, I get
  > the following errors. The host is a Debian GNU/Linux system running
  > the "frozen" release of potato, which has gcc 2.95.2.
  > 
  > I have already built and installed binutils-2.10 for ppc-eabi without
  > trouble. Both the binutils and gcc builds are done in directories
  > separate from the source trees.
  > 
  > I have a full script of the tarball extraction and build attempt, if
  > anyone wants to see it.
You need to tell GCC how to find headers and libraries for your target
system -- without them it's unable to compile things like libstdc++/libio.

jeff