Compilation errors building gcc on mipsel

[Harry Prevor]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:11:05AM +0200, Kai Ruottu wrote:
> The 'mips' type targets are big-endian, 'mipsel' type targets
> little-endian, so when you define the host/target being
> 'mips-unknown-linux-gnu'
> and don't the configure script to check what the system is, you got
> just what you seemed to want!  So if you had left this away and had
> configured with :
> 
>    ../gcc-4.8.2/configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++
> 
> you probably had succeeded...

Alas, there was unfortunately a previous chapter to my story. 

Before posting this message, I had tried to run "../gcc-4.8.2/configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++" instead, but I was just getting a very similar error[1].

I asked in the IRC channel on Freenode, and someone there suggested that I add "mips-unknown-linux-gnu" to the configure line.

He said it may have had to do with my "uname -a" being "broken"; it currently outputs "Linux marielle 3.5.3-gnu #1 PREEMPT Tue Aug 28 10:49:41 UTC 2012 mips64 GNU/Linux". Not sure if there's something wrong with that.

> Ok, you can check what the configury system would tell your system
> being via running :
> 
>     ./config.guess
> 
> in the main gcc-4.8.2 source directory.

Oddly enough, if I run that script, I do get "mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu", so very confused as to what the issue is here.

[1]: http://sprunge.us/DDgM

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Harry Prevor