The same is happening to me.

Unfortunately, it seems that "make" is from 2.9.5+.... I.E. your default Debian make, but ld and a few of the other utils from the toolkit are not.

When you start the compile, make is checking the versions of the files it's calling. The arm-toolkit files are older than the make... and problems appear.

That is where the error appears to be coming from... At least on Debian Unstable here.

I'm going to build a stable version of Debian and see if that helps any. I'm sort of doubting it, though.

I'd certainly like to get it working however, as I've got a HUGE pile of patches waiting to be applied.

I THOUGHT I remember seeing a switch somewhere that turned off that check, but I'll be damned if I can find it now.