Unless you have older versions already installed, changing the order will fail. During compilation, you'll need about 31MB disk space for binutils. GNU libc requires 149MB disk space during compilation, and 33MB for installation. Note, these numbers are just a guideline and may differ significantly for different processor and operating system architectures or compiler options. 9.5 Byte order One of the special features of the MIPS architecture is that all processors except the R8000 can be configured to run either in big or in little endian mode.
Byte order means the way the processor stores multibyte numbers in memory.
Big endian machines store the byte with the highest value digits at the lowest address while little endian machines store it at the highest address. Think of it as writing multi-digit numbers from left to right or vice versa. If you don't already know, check the section Hardware Platforms for your machine's byte order. 9.6 Configuration names Many of the packages based on autoconf support many different architectures and operating systems. You must use the same configuration name for all packages that comprise your cross-compilation environment.