Building a cross-compile tool chain for mips-elf

[Alfred von Campe]

We have a rather ancient (gcc 3.2.3/binutils 2.13) cross-compile tool  
chain hosted on x86 Linux for a mips-elf target.  Nobody remembers  
who or how it was built.  We are running into a bug with as/ld that  
is supposedly fixed in binutils 2.17 and on.  So I thought I may as  
well upgrade the entire tool chain.  Here are the steps I followed  
(I'm sticking with gcc 3.X because there is some reluctance to jump  
to V4.X) :

    cd /some/where
    tar zxf bintuils-2.18.tar.gz
    tar zxf gcc-3.4.6.tar.gz
    tar zxf gcc-g++-3.4.6.tar.gz
    cd bintuils-2.18
    ./configure --target=mips-elf --prefix=/usr/local/mips-tools/elf/ 
3.4.6
    make
    make install
    export PATH=/usr/local/mips-tools/elf/3.4.6/bin:$PATH
    cd ../gcc-3.4.6
    ./configure --target=mips-elf --prefix=/usr/local/mips-tools/elf/ 
3.4.6
    make

At some point make calls configure, and I get the following error:

    configure: error: No support for this host/target combination.
    make: *** [configure-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1

My questions are;

  1. Did I miss anything?
  2. Can I simply use the bintuils 2.18 binaries with
     the existing gcc 3.2.3 tool chain?

I ask the second question in case it's too complicated to fix  
whatever is causing the build error in the first place.

Thanks,
Alfred