> The fact it's not listed as a prerequesite has already been pointed
> out as a problem with the docs.
As a consensual first step toward addressing this issue, I suggest the
following patch to the doc. I hope it is clear enough, but suggestions are
obviously welcome. (I haven't even compiled the docs with it, as I'm on my
laptop with little battery.)
FX
Index: install.texi
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--- install.texi (revision 201292)
+++ install.texi (working copy)
@@ -255,6 +255,26 @@ may need to use @option{--disable-stage1
bootstrapping the compiler with such earlier compilers is strongly
discouraged.
+@item C standard library and headers
+
+In order to build GCC, the C standard library and headers must be present
+for all target variants for which target libraries will be built (and not
+only the variant of the host C++ compiler).
+
+This affects the popular @samp{x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu} platform (among
+other multilib targets), for which 64-bit (@samp{x86_64}) and 32-bit
+(@samp{i386}) libc headers are usually packaged separately. If you do a
+build of a native compiler on @samp{x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu}, beware of
+either:
+
+@itemize @bullet
+@item having 32-bit libc developer package properly installed (the exact
+name of the package depends on your distro); otherwise, you may encounter an
+error such as @samp{fatal error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file}
+@item building GCC as a 64-bit only compiler, by configuring with the
+option @option{--disable-multilib}
+@end itemize
+
@item GNAT
In order to build the Ada compiler (GNAT) you must already have GNAT
