From Rafal's commit for mipseb (which applies here too):
WARNING: Binutils 2.11.2 (maybe earlier) changed the MIPS ABI, so any
shared libs built by this toolchain WILL NOT WORK without either a whack
to BFD to fix that or a patch to ld_elf.so to work around it. I need to
chase the binutils folks on this issue still.
changes to configuration stuff to (a) recognize `mipseb', and (b) build a
BE-default GCC on mipseb. gprof and gdb still not done.
WARNING: Binutils 2.11.2 (maybe earlier) changed the MIPS ABI, so any
shared libs built by this toolchain WILL NOT WORK without either a whack
to BFD to fix that or a patch to ld_elf.so to work around it. I need to
chase the binutils folks on this issue still.
That said, the new toolchain seems to work quite well once the ABI change
is worked around/fixed -- I'm committing from a machine running a user-
land built with the new compiler.
lukem