Compilation errors building gcc on mipsel

[Harry Prevor]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 04:53:20PM +0200, Kai Ruottu wrote:
> You can spy how the current GCC was configured via 'gcc -v'.  I
> could guess a 'mipsel-linux-gnu' or
> 'mipsel-linux-gnueabi' being used in its configure command. Or
> things to define the default output
> and CPU to be a 32-bit one instead of the expected 64-bit....

Here's the output of my "gcc -v":

Using built-in specs.
Target: mipsel-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.4.5-8' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --disable-libssp --enable-targets=all --enable-checking=release --build=mipsel-linux-gnu --host=mipsel-linux-gnu --target=mipsel-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-8)

> Just for curiosity I checked what the 'gcc-4.3_4.3.5-4_mipsel.deb'
> package from 2012 (like your
> system) was and saw it being configured using all the three system
> names being the same :
> 
>     --build=mipsel-linux-gnu --host=mipsel-linux-gnu
> --target=mipsel-linux-gnu
> 
> (using 'strings gcc-4.3 | less' and searching for 'configure')  You
> should check also the other options
> used with the existing native GCC  whether they could be needed...

My package version is actually slightly different than that, but your observation is correct. Unfortunately, I don't really know what that means in context. 

Is there something wrong with this configuration? Nothing seems to really jump out at me. If so, what can I do to fix it? 

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Harry Prevor