mips 64 bit build - ls errors

[Jim Gifford]

I've been attempting to build a 64 bit build of coreutils, but haven't 
had any luck. I need some guidance on how to figure this one out.

Trying to build gzip, I receive this error message
lfs:~/build/gzip-1.3.5$ ./configure --prefix=/tools
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /tools/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: ls -t 
appears to fail.  Make sure there is not a broken
alias in your environment
configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock

If I switch to a 32 bit ls, everything goes ok.

ls -t gives me the same output, so that kinda of confused me, but 
looking into the configure I notice it as doing a ls -t > file, that's 
where things bomb

lfs:~/build$ ls -t > test
Illegal instruction
lfs:~/build$

but the 32 bit one works file
lfs:~/build$ /bin/ls -t > test
lfs:~/build$

Any suggestions

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