Problem with building cross compiler on Cygwin

[David J. Stelte]

I've been trying (unsuccessfully so far) to build a 68k-coff gcc running 
on Cygwin. I have been using the process documented in:

http://www.objsw.com/CrossGCC/FAQ-4.html

This process builds the binutils first, then the crossgcc, followed by 
newlib and lastly gdb.

My binutils (assembler, loader, etc) build and install just fine. 
However I cannot get the crossgcc to build. The build dies somewhere in 
the middle with the tail end of the build output as follows:

..................
checking for ANSI C header files... no
checking for uintptr_t... no
checking for pid_t... no
checking whether the C compiler ( /home/Dave/foo/build-gcc/gcc/xgcc 
-B/home/Dave/foo/build-gcc/gcc/ -B/bar/m68k-coff/bin/ 
-B/bar/m68k-coff/lib/ -isystem /bar/m68k-coff/include -O2 -g -O2 ) 
works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler 
cannot create executables.
make: *** [configure-target-libiberty] Error 1

Does anyone recognize the problem? Help much appreciated.

Dave Stelte