compiling native GCC for arm using cross-compiler

Question

I am looking to create a native build of GCC for an ARM system and I am running into some trouble. The build machine is i686-linux. Every tutorial I see tells me how to set

Answer 1

Look in the config.log file (maybe not the top-level one) and see what it was trying to do when the test failed. Just grep for the cannot compute suffix message and you should find the right bit (it won't be at the end of the file).

Note that you'll need a working arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-gcc on your path somewhere if you want to build a cross-native toolchain. I.e. you need a cross compiler to build cross-native compiler.