Building GCC make: *** [all] Error 2

Question

I am trying to set up a cross-compiler for i686-elf on Ubuntu following the OSDev GCC Cross-Compiler Tutuorial. However, the code to set up GCC fails to build every time. I know my sources are not out of date because I sudo apt-get update'd before doing anything.

In order to get the packages I needed, I did:

sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install bison
sudo apt-get install flex
sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev
sudo apt-get install libmpfr-dev libmpfr-doc libmpfr4 libmpfr4-dbg
sudo apt-get install mpc
sudo apt-get install texinfo
sudo apt-get install libcloog-isl-dev

I think there is no problem with that method?

Then, with gcc-5.2.0 and binutils-2.25.1 (in ubuntu, bintuils appears to not work with anything above that old version) I installed binutils just fine. I went to build gcc but when I typed in make, I got the following error:

Unfortunately, I can't copy+paste 30 pages in, but this all the code near the end:

checking command to parse nm output from gcc  -m32 object... failed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
checking for ANSI C header files... no
checking for sys/types.h... no
checking for sys/stat.h... no
checking for stdlib.h... no
checking for string.h... no
checking for memory.h... no
checking for strings.h... no
checking for inttypes.h... no
checking for stdint.h... no
checking for unistd.h... no
checking for dlfcn.h... no
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc  -m32 supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc  -m32 option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc  -m32 PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc  -m32 static flag -static works... no
checking if gcc  -m32 supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc  -m32 supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc  -m32 linker (ld -m elf_x86_64 -m elf_i386) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
Makefile:9590: recipe for target 'configure-zlib' failed
make[1]: *** [configure-zlib] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/david/scr'
Makefile:876: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

And this is the part (right after that) where something really bad happens:

checking dynamic linker characteristics... configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
Makefile:9590: recipe for target 'configure-zlib' failed
make[1]: *** [configure-zlib] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/david/scr'
Makefile:876: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong and how I would fix it?

Thanks!

Solution

In addition to --with-system-zlib, it worked for me when I use --disable-multilib option.