../glibc-2.3.4/configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-profile --enable-add-ons \
--enable-kernel=2.6.0 --libexecdir=/usr/lib/glibc

I run this under /tools/glibc-build/ and it bombs.

I get

checking for gcc... gcc
checking for suffix of object files... configure :error cannot compute suffix of object files.

I checked config.log files and it said that /tools/bin/gcc does not exist

I went to /tools/bin/ and gcc is there. I tried to execute it and "No such file or directory "

I tried ./gcc, cc but no dice. I had a link to /bin/gcc, but I removed it. IMHO I don't know. Any suggestions?

What do you get for

ls -l /tools/bin/gcc

Is it a link to somewhere else? Do you have a working copy of gcc ( you need gcc to compile gcc I know its circular but true. )

The file is there and has smilely faces inside it so it is executable.

It think it had a broken link to the original gcc. I backed tracked and recompliled gcc as root, but all of the other parts were built with this gcc, so I fdisk /dev/hda and started over. I built gcc in the /gcc source file instead of the build file and something did not link just right. I reread the section where I messed up and as this is a learning endevour anyway, so as long as I learn and am still having fun it is worth it. Thank you.

configure produces a config.log file that is very useful. Detailed error messages will be found there.

As many have said the instructions are sort of vague in th LFS book, but this is good because it requires you to think. I recompiled the program "Create a separate build directory again", I had been recycling the first pass build directory with bad results. Create another new build directory, recompile and it made just fine.