Help on build failure of patchelf on mips variants

Hi,

I'm currently at a loss on why does patchelf fail to build (or rather,
it fails its testsuite) on all mips variants[1].

Patchelf modifies ELF binaries, to add/remove RPATH and other
sections. On all mips variants, some tests fail. From what I can tell,
the loader complains that the new (altered) file has an invalid
MIPS.abiflags section, and yet from what I can tell both the original
and altered binaries have the same (as reported by readelf).

I have printed some more logs at the upstream issue tracker:
https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/issues/82

Any help would be appreciated. I'd rather not remove patchelf from mips.


[1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=patchelf&ver=0.9-1&suite=sid