ARM Cross-compiler problem

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Hi everyone,

I don't know if anyone else out there has felt the pain of building an 
ARM-Thumb cross compiler.

I have spent much time but can't seem to succeed, so please help.
I have mandrake 8 with the 2.4 kernel.

I have downloaded gcc-2.95.3, 2.8.1, snapshot 20010521;
binutils-2.9.1, 2.11. newlib-1.8.1, glibc-2.2.3
I try configure binutils -target=arm-elf, arm-thumb-elf;
copy stdio.h etc. over to directory
gcc -target=as above.

I type arm-thumb-elf-gcc file.c and get 
can not open crt0.o. no such file or directory.

are there any additional command line options?

Any suggestions.