making the cross tools- more info

[Chuck Robey]

I have one bit more of info, so I'm going to paste it at the end.
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Referring to the "Mini-install guide" that's on the Arm web page, I've
built/installed the compiler, but when I got to the 2nd set of instructions,
about building the binutils, it gives me this error after doing quite a bit of
building:

make: don't know how to make /usr/cross/usr/lib/libc.a. Stop
*** Error code 2

The DESTDIR is /usr/cross, and the command itself from the guide sets the
TOOLS_PREFIX also to /usr/cross.  Any idea what's going on, that it's refusing
to use my system libc.a?  It's a cross-compiler here, which means it's going to
execute here on my i386 machine, so it really SHOULD use my local libc.a (not
some libc.a for the Arm arch), right?


[ADDED} the build error came in the "all" target part of building of ld, which
is the 7th app in that subdir (all the others went beautifully).  Svn diff
doesn't tell me that I have any mods, and seeing as I only recently changed
from cvs to svn (about 2 months ago) I'm really pretty sure I haven't hacked
into there any.