Circular dependency with glibc libpthread libihash

[Manolis Ragkousis]

When libpthread tries to link against "libihash.so" I get the error:

/lib/libihash.so: file not recognized: File format not recognized.

This happens because libihash was built using the native compiler.
So I changed the flag in libihash configure to "--host" so it will use
the cross-compiler. But then I got the error "configure:3008: error: C
compiler cannot create executables."
I read the config.log file and the problem arise from this
/../gcc-cross-sans-libc-i686-pc-gnu-4.8.2/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-gnu/ld:
cannot find crt1.o: No such file or directory
/../gcc-cross-sans-libc-i686-pc-gnu-4.8.2/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-gnu/ld:
cannot find crti.o: No such file or directory
/../gcc-cross-sans-libc-i686-pc-gnu-4.8.2/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-gnu/ld:
cannot find -lc
/../gcc-cross-sans-libc-i686-pc-gnu-4.8.2/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-gnu/ld:
cannot find crtn.o: No such file or directory

It tries to compile a program, but cannot find these files, so it
fails. But in order to have them we need glibc.

We have a circular dependency glibc+libpthread -> libihash -> glibc,
so I guess an intermediate glibc is our only option. Or is there
another way?