severity 274738 serious thanks as seen in the buildd logs, gcc-3.4 now fails to build from source on mips/mipsel.
the patch proposed in
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-10/msg00325.html
tries to work around the problem, but it was suggested, that binutils
itself should be fixed.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-10/msg00508.html

