but make didn't run through. I did:
~/buildroot$ make menuconfig
~/buildroot$ make -d 2>&1 |tee logfile
Here is some tail from the logfile (omitted lots of checking lines):
...
checking ...
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
updating cache ./config.cache
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: executing default-1 commands
Adding multilib support to Makefile in /home/raina/Desktop/buildroot/toolchain_build_i586/gcc-4.0.3/zlib
multidirs=64
with_multisubdir=
Running configure in multilib subdirs 64
pwd: /home/raina/Desktop/buildroot/toolchain_build_i586/gcc-4.0.3-final/zlib
Running configure in multilib subdir 64
pwd: /home/raina/Desktop/buildroot/toolchain_build_i586/gcc-4.0.3-final
mkdir 64
configure: creating cache ./config.cache
checking build system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
checking ...
...
checking ...
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
creating libtool
updating cache ./config.cache
configure: loading cache ./config.cache
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -m64 -E
checking for memcpy... configure: error: Link tests are not allowed after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES.
Reaping losing child 0x080c3838 PID 11125
make[1]: *** [configure-zlib] Error 1
Removing child 0x080c3838 PID 11125 from chain.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/raina/Desktop/buildroot/toolchain_build_i586/gcc-4.0.3-final'
Reaping losing child 0x08651818 PID 9366
make: *** [/home/raina/Desktop/buildroot/toolchain_build_i586/gcc-4.0.3-final/.compiled] Error 2
Removing child 0x08651818 PID 9366 from chain.
$ cc --version
gcc.real (GCC) 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)
$ make -v
GNU Make 3.81beta4
$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.15-25-386 0000001 PREEMPT Wed Jun 14 11:25:49 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 2200.206
cache size : 512 KB
.config [^] (8,687 bytes) 07-02-06 14:28 
