Actually, could you try doing a make clean, and rerunning  config
and remaking after applying the following patch?

It just turns on ECOFF targets as well as the default
little- and big- endian ELF targets.  

The binaries I've been shipping actually had 64-bit targets too-- just
like the OpenBSD mipsel targets -- but you must turn those off if
producing a libbfd to link against GDB as well.  (binutils and libbfd
can handle different wordsizes, gdb can't, yet.)

You'd probably need to do this before trying to build a `shared'
library. Though i don't know if the machinery to do that is all in the
GNU makefiles..


*** binutils-2.8.1/bfd/config.bfd.DIST	Sat May 31 19:46:43 1997
--- binutils-2.8.1/bfd/config.bfd	Mon Oct 27 03:14:17 1997
***************
*** 337,343 ****
      ;;
    mips-dec-netbsd*)
      targ_defvec=bfd_elf32_littlemips_vec
!     targ_selvecs=bfd_elf32_bigmips_vec
      ;;
    mips*-dec-bsd*)
      targ_defvec=aout_mips_little_vec
--- 337,343 ----
      ;;
    mips-dec-netbsd*)
      targ_defvec=bfd_elf32_littlemips_vec
!     targ_selvecs="bfd_elf32_bigmips_vec ecoff_little_vec ecoff_big_vec"
      ;;
    mips*-dec-bsd*)
      targ_defvec=aout_mips_little_vec
***************
*** 398,403 ****
--- 398,407 ----
    mips*el*-*-linux* | mips*el*-*-openbsd*)
      targ_defvec=bfd_elf32_littlemips_vec
      targ_selvecs="bfd_elf32_bigmips_vec bfd_elf64_bigmips_vec bfd_elf64_littlemips_vec ecoff_little_vec ecoff_big_vec"
+     ;;
+   mips*el*-*-netbsd*)
+     targ_defvec=bfd_elf32_littlemips_vec
+     targ_selvecs="bfd_elf32_bigmips_vec ecoff_little_vec ecoff_big_vec"
      ;;
    mips*-*-linux* | mips*-*-openbsd*)
      targ_defvec=bfd_elf32_bigmips_vec


--Jonathan