diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/arch/mipsel/defs.mk b/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/arch/mipsel/defs.mk
index 729546b6e061..572a849dae3a 100644
--- a/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/arch/mipsel/defs.mk
+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/arch/mipsel/defs.mk
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Generated from: 	NetBSD: toolchain2netbsd,v 1.12 2001/08/14 05:17:59 tv Exp 
 #
 G_DEFS=-DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I${DIST}/ld -I.
-G_EMUL=elf32bmip
+G_EMUL=elf32lmip
 G_EMULATION_OFILES=eelf32bmip.o eelf32lmip.o
 G_INCLUDES=-D_GNU_SOURCE -I. -I${DIST}/ld -I../bfd -I${DIST}/ld/../bfd -I${DIST}/ld/../include -I${DIST}/ld/../intl -I../intl  -g -O2 -DLOCALEDIR="\"/usr/local/share/locale\""
 G_OFILES=ldgram.o ldlex.o lexsup.o ldlang.o mri.o ldctor.o ldmain.o  ldwrite.o ldexp.o  ldemul.o ldver.o ldmisc.o  ldfile.o ldcref.o eelf32bmip.o eelf32lmip.o