How can I build an older gcc (specifically, 4.5.2) on Ubuntu 11.10 and avoid errors about "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory"?

I've done a bit of digging and found several similar items, but none that actually resolve my issue:

• I've verified all my packages (libc6-dev and the like) are re-installed per this question


• I've verified crti.o exists in /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, and that my ld.so.conf is configured to look in those directories


• I've verified that prepending my make invocation with LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu works, but would like to avoid this (it becomes a diverging point in makefiles)


• I've tried various things with --with-build-sysroot, but with no success (read: maybe I just don't know the right flag to set)



• When running with strace (as per this answer), I can see the bare reference to crti.o:

  
  
  

  13240 open("crti.o", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Thanks!