ld cannot find -lc

[Amittai Aviram]

Hi!  I am trying to build GCC 4.4.5 from source on an x86_64 machine running under Ubuntu.  The build is stalling with the following error:

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/../lib/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/../lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible //usr/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible //usr/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [libgcc_s.so] Error 1

And I don't know quite what to do.  I tried running

sudo apt-get install libc6

and apt-get said that the latest version of libc was already installed.  Any suggestions?  Thanks!

uname -a
Linux BL1 2.6.35-30-server #56-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 11 21:37:42 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Amittai Aviram
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Yale University
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