help building gcc 3.2

[Joshua Nye]

> How ever when I went to build my cross compiler, xgcc insisted on the
> following files
> crti.o and libc.a
> to build the cross compiler.

You need to build glibc or another C library for the target platform.

> Whey would a compiler need these files or care about them.  After all, you
> might need the compiler to build theses files.  How do I specify the
> configure options so that these files are not needed.  If they are needed,
> could somebody explain why they are needed.
>

I've had some troubles with 3.2 in this regard. I think I ended up using GCC
2.95.x to build a glibc for my target and then built a GCC 3.2
cross-compiler.

--josh