problems on mips using 64bit kernel

[Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org>]

Hi,
I am esperiencing some strange problems when compiling packages on a
MIPS machine.

1. dh_testroot segfault

giuseppe@sgi:/$ fakeroot dh_testroot
/usr/bin/fakeroot: line 148: 22880 Segmentation fault      FAKEROOTKEY=
$FAKEROOTKEY LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PATHS" LD_PRELOAD="$LIB" "$@"

2. it seems I cannot compile the kernel (it is an O2, with 64 bit
kernel) since I get this strange error:

[...]
  AS      arch/mips/lib-64/memset.o
  AS      arch/mips/lib-64/watch.o
  AR      arch/mips/lib-64/lib.a
  GEN     .version
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
dnsdomainname: Unknown host
  UPD     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
ld:lib/lib.a: file format not recognized; treating as linker script
ld:lib/lib.a:1: parse error
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/linux-20041117'
make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

while "file lib/lib.a" says:
giuseppe@sgi:linux-20041117$ file lib/lib.a
lib/lib.a: current ar archive


Thanks,
Giuseppe