It's been a long time that the gcc libraries are all installed in the sys-root.
Thus populate does not need to look above to find the libraries.
/trunk/tools/populate.in | 9 3 6 0 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
1 # MIPS specific config options
4 select ARCH_SUPPORTS_BOTH_ENDIAN
6 select ARCH_SUPPORT_ARCH
7 select ARCH_SUPPORT_ABI
8 select ARCH_SUPPORT_TUNE
10 The MIPS architecture, as defined by: