A little LFS problem...

[netstrider]

Maybe Ubuntu Feisty is not a good base system, I don't know. The book says to do this with binutils, (which is the first package to compile)

mkdir -v ../binutils-build
cd ../binutils-build

I did all this, the binutils bzip2 is uncompressec in $LFS/sources

../binutils-2.16.1/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls

Works fine...
make and make install all work fine then I come to make clean part in which the book says the following:

Next, prepare the linker for the “Adjusting” phase later on:

make -C ld clean
make -C ld LIB_PATH=/tools/lib
cp -v ld/ld-new /tools/bin

I do the first line of make -C ld clean and then as soon as I get to the second line it runs it and ends like this:

/mnt/lfs/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.0.3/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [ld-new] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/ld'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/ld'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/ld'
lfs@illianoir:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build$

I ensured that my version of binutils is not higher than 2.16.1 (degraded it from 2.17.5 actually) because the book warns against versions higher than 2.16.1.
Don't find a similar problem anywhere...someone who can perhaps help ?

[netstrider]

OK I found the problem, it was missing libc.so file under $LFS/tools/lib/ so I copied that from /usr/lib/ (as the version of GCC I have on my system is the same one I am to compile for LFS). That solved the problem

[Juan Pablo]

Good luck with LFS, always makes good practice