C compiler cannot create executables?

[dsimcha]

== Quote from Iain Buclaw (ibuclaw at ubuntu.com)'s article
> For Debian/Ubuntu, you also need to consider that they've been experimenting with
> multiarch system for 32 and 64bit, which requires special patches to GCC so that
> it can find the correct locations of headers, libraries, etc.
> If you are using a vanilla GCC tarball to build, it may help if you put the
> following in your .bashrc
> LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
> CPATH=/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu
> export LIBRARY_PATH CPATH
> Regards
> Iain

Another way to fix this is apparently to just disable the bootstrap feature via
--disable-bootstrap.  It seems rather useless anyhow.  Why should I care what my
compiler was compiled with?