Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 diff -durN gcc-3.4.6.orig/gcc/config/mips/t-linux gcc-3.4.6/gcc/config/mips/t-linux
2 --- gcc-3.4.6.orig/gcc/config/mips/t-linux 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
3 +++ gcc-3.4.6/gcc/config/mips/t-linux 2007-08-15 23:08:15.000000000 +0200
5 +# Compile crtbegin/end with xgot so it works for both
6 +# normal and large GOTs.
7 +CRTSTUFF_T_CFLAGS = -mxgot