Unfortunately the bug was filed on a machine which
now runs edgy, and hence the relevant configuration
regarding my system at the time isn't available.

It looks like this package will be removed from Debian
shortly. See:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392970

and

http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/toolchain-source.html

If I may generalize this bug away from this specific
package, the problem is that building a cross-compilation
toolchain on Ubuntu/Debian is not an "out-of-the-box"
experience. Apparently the current direction for
upstream is to try to make the gcc source package
able to build any set of toolchain necessary.

There is a debian/README.cross in the gcc source
package (last time I looked into this I was working
with etch gcc-4.1-4.1.1ds1), but the basic problem
is that the debian package only supports debian
ARCHs, and not all GNU ARCHs. Hence there is
some support for building arm-linux using the
gcc source package (which still didn't work out of
the box IIRC), but none for arm-elf. (in fact, for
basic ARCH-linux builds one can try to use the
.debs built by emdebian).

So I apologize that this is becoming a bit of a rant,
and that it's mostly directed to upstream instead of
Ubuntu, but given Ubuntu's ability to focus on
usability perhaps this problem could be addressed
from this community also.

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gcc built by toolchain source depends on gcc-3.4-base (< 3.4.5)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/49327

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