*** bfd/elfxx-mips.c.ori	2007-10-10 09:28:42.715483416 -0400
--- bfd/elfxx-mips.c	2007-10-10 09:56:46.514369373 -0400
*************** _bfd_mips_elf_fake_sections (bfd *abfd, 
*** 5670,5676 ****
        hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_MIPS_NOSTRIP;
      }
    else if (CONST_STRNEQ (name, ".debug_"))
!     hdr->sh_type = SHT_MIPS_DWARF;
    else if (strcmp (name, ".MIPS.symlib") == 0)
      {
        hdr->sh_type = SHT_MIPS_SYMBOL_LIB;
--- 5670,5684 ----
        hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_MIPS_NOSTRIP;
      }
    else if (CONST_STRNEQ (name, ".debug_"))
!     {
!       hdr->sh_type = SHT_MIPS_DWARF;
! 
!       /* Irix facilities such as libexc expect a single .debug_frame
! 	 per executable, the system ones have NOSTRIP set and the linker
! 	 doesn't merge sections with different flags so ...  */
!       if (SGI_COMPAT (abfd) && CONST_STRNEQ (name, ".debug_frame"))
! 	hdr->sh_flags |= SHF_MIPS_NOSTRIP;
!     }
    else if (strcmp (name, ".MIPS.symlib") == 0)
      {
        hdr->sh_type = SHT_MIPS_SYMBOL_LIB;