A Question about GCC

[Benjamin Gall]

Hello everyone, I'm building a linux system from the ground up.  And
well after I compiled gcc
it can't seem to find the header files.  Is there a resource file for
gcc?  how does it know where to look for
the headers?  Every time I run the configure script for a program now it
says:  Checking to see if gcc compiler works... no.  So I went under a
directory of a program that I had already configured and I would run
make to see if I get of a detailed error message.  It says no such file
or directory, for every header in the program.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ben