problem starting out...please help

Hi All, I now have a V171 phone and cable so I thought I might get started with this. I checked out the code and started make. Osmocon built with no problem, but I got this error next: cd shared/libosmocore/build-target && ../configure \ --host=arm-elf-linux --disable-vty --enable-panic-infloop \ --disable-shared --disable-talloc --disable-tests \ CC="arm-elf-gcc" CFLAGS="-Os -ffunction-sections -I../../../../target/firmware/include" configure: WARNING: if you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host. If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for arm-elf-linux-strip... no checking for strip... strip checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking for arm-elf-linux-gcc... arm-elf-gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/mnt/site/osmocom-bb/src/shared/libosmocore/build-target': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details make: *** [shared/libosmocore/build-target/Makefile] Error 77 Checking config.log I can see it chokes here: /usr/bin/arm-elf-ld: this linker was not configured to use sysroots collect2: ld returned 1 exit status I am running Arch Linux and have the packages cross-arm-elf-binutils and cross-arm-elf-gcc-base installed. Does anyone have any suggestions to fix this? Thanks!