>> But the question is still begging: why then, when the build is >> configured with `target=arm-linux` the linker looks for the >> `crti.o` file in the `gcc-4.5.0/gcc/` build directory? > > It looks in a number of places for each file; that is just one of them. > If glibc is installed using the same --prefix as gcc, then it should > look there as well. I hope. According to the strace (included first in the thread, grep "30919.+crti.o") it seems to just try once and give up. Of course I don't have glibc installed ... I haven't anything to compile it with ... - Jamie