Newest crosscompiler for mipsel and status in general

[Peter Loje Hansen <plh@2m.net>]

I managed to build a crosscompiler on my Intel system for mipsel-linux
using the instructions on:

http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/cross-compiler.html

and the packages

binutils-2.8.1-2.mipsel.rpm
glibc-2.0.7-20.mipsel.rpm
glibc-devel-2.0.7-20.mipsel.rpm
egcs-1.0.2-9.src.rpm

It works OK, except for a couple of linker warning and the fact that
socketbits.h differs between Redhat and Debian versions of glibc-2.0.7

Has anybody succeeded in building a "newer" crosscompiler (e.g.
gcc-2.95)?

What's the overall status of the Debian MIPS port?
Are there any precompiled packages around?

Regards
Peter L. Hansen