maybe a stupid question but what packages are needed by host in order to do a succesful build of LFS?
See the first paragraph here:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/view/stable/chapter01/chapter01.html
When selecting the 'development' option for your host, make sure that includes the glibc headers which is often a package called glibc-devel.
Or you could use a livecd :) which provides a good host system to start from, and all the packages.
http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/livecd/
-- Jeremy Huntwork
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