On 7 April 2017 at 17:26, Toebs Douglass wrote: > I'm also not quite sure if the instructions are quite correct - or > perhaps it is that the options being passed to GCC configure have > misleading documentation. For example, the use of "--with-newlib" seems > most odd, since we're using glibc. That's explained in the LFS docs: "Since a working C library is not yet available, this ensures that the inhibit_libc constant is defined when building libgcc. This prevents the compiling of any code that requires libc support. " Basically LFS relies on that configure option to say "not glibc".