Chapters 6 and 7: Building the Basic Toolset [July 15, 2012, 10:37 p.m.]
As per the previous task, you'll be working mostly with the book for this task. Start on page 47 (that's a book page; add 13 if you're counting from the front cover, so it's really page 60). Here's a link to the book,
http://greenback.gremlin.net/CLFS-x86.pdf
And here's some spec files for reference: