I seem to be having a similar problem to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=gcc, but I'm not exactly sure how the issue was resolved. The following is the error output. Running SuSE 9.1 Pro 64bit.

HEADERS="ansidecl.h i386/biarch64.h i386/i386.h i386/unix.h i386/att.h dbxelf.h elfos.h svr4.h linux.h i386/x86-64.h i386/linux64.h defaults.h" XM_DEFINES="POSIX" \
TARGET_CPU_DEFAULT="" \
/bin/sh ../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/mkconfig.sh tconfig.h
./xgcc -B./ -B/tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/ -isystem /tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/include -isystem /tools/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -isystem ./include -I. -I. -I../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc -I../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/. -I../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/config -I../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/../include -g0 -finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline-functions -fno-exceptions -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables \
-c ../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/crtstuff.c -DCRT_BEGIN \
-o crtbegin.o
In file included from ../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/crtstuff.c:62:
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/tsystem.h:72:19: stdio.h: No such file or directory
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/tsystem.h:75:23: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/tsystem.h:78:19: errno.h: No such file or directory
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/tsystem.h:85:20: string.h: No such file or directory
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/tsystem.h:89:20: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/tsystem.h:90:20: unistd.h: No such file or directory
In file included from include/syslimits.h:7,
from include/limits.h:11,
from ../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/tsystem.h:93,
from ../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/crtstuff.c:62:
include/limits.h:122:75: limits.h: No such file or directory
In file included from ../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/crtstuff.c:62:
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/tsystem.h:96:18: time.h: No such file or directory
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/crtstuff.c: In function `__do_global_dtors_aux':
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/crtstuff.c:280: warning: passing arg 1 of `__deregister_frame_info' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/crtstuff.c: In function `frame_dummy':
../../gcc-3.3.3/gcc/crtstuff.c:316: warning: passing arg 1 of `__register_frame_info' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
make[2]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/lfs/tools/gcc-build/gcc'
make[1]: *** [stage1_build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lfs/tools/gcc-build/gcc'
make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2

just a question.........do you even have gcc or the glibc libraries installed
on your $HOST system..........

some of those errors suggest you don't.

Interesting, but yes, both are installed (Glibc 2.3.3-63 and GCC 3.3.3-33). Binutils installed without errors.

Issue fixed. I had misunderstood the book to say to always patch beforehand. After searching around for header errors, it finally hit me that the next sections spell out the patch updates. So, after removing the gcc tree and starting over without patching, it, of course, worked.