Comment 1 for bug 342667

Same thing going on here, but I'm targeting an H8/3069.
I believe I have properly analyzed the problem at this point, though I have not yet been able to fix it. Here's what I've come up with:
1. The package maintainer did not build GCC with newlib as he could not get it to build (I found a post stating this somewhere but can't seem to relocate it).
2. As newlib provides the C libraries (libc.a, not libgcc.a mind you).
3. I have successfully built newlib (1.17.0) and incorporated it into the directory structure, but I get the error
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/usr/lib/gcc/h8300-hitachi-coff/3.4.6/../../../../h8300-hitachi-coff/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/h8300-hitachi-coff/3.4.6/../../../../h8300-hitachi-coff/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/lib/gcc/h8300-hitachi-coff/3.4.6/../../../../h8300-hitachi-coff/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../h8300-hitachi-coff/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc
/usr/lib/gcc/h8300-hitachi-coff/3.4.6/../../../../h8300-hitachi-coff/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
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indicating my build of newlib is not compatible with the compiler/assembler/linker/etc. Everything was built with the H8300 compiler/assembler/linker according to the build log. Further poking around with google provided me with some comments about how newer versions of GCC don't have ports properly updated. In a fit of desperation earlier on in my venture here I grabbed gcc-4.4 sources and tried to build only to find a message about the target h8300 no longer being maintained and that it has been deprecated and will be removed....

Has anyone been able to build for H8 with newer versions of Ubuntu? What was the last successfully build anyone had? What version of the packages was that with?