Check your arch/mips/ld.script file.  I think you need to remove the
OUTPUT_FORMAT line in there.  This was fixed in CVS on May 10, 2001; your
snapshot might be right before that.

Regards,
Brad

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Rusek" <redacted>
To: <redacted>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:45 PM
Subject: Error Compiling 2.4.3 kernel on SGI IP22...

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/arch/mips/kernel'

<snip>

mips-linux-ld: target elf32-bigmips not found
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1