When building with crosstool-ng, the libssp library is compiled at the final stage of the compiler (after uClibc-ng was built), resulting in the chicken-and-egg problem with utils. The attached patch fixes the problem by building utils without stack smashing protector.
[ALL ] mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc-gcc ../utils/getconf.c -o ../utils/getconf -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wstrict-aliasing -Wno-nonnull-compare -funsigned-char -fno-builtin -fno-asm -fmerge-all-constants -msoft-float -std=gnu99 -mabi=32 -mnan=legacy -fstack-protector -nostdinc -I../include -I../include -include libc-symbols.h -I../libc/sysdeps/linux/mips -I../libc/sysdeps/linux -I../ldso/ldso/mips -I../ldso/include -I. -Os -fstrict-aliasing -mno-split-addresses -pipe -D__USE_STDIO_FUTEXES__ -DHAVE_FORCED_UNWIND -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -I../libpthread/nptl -I../libpthread/nptl -I../libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips -I../libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/mips -I../libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/mips -I../libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/pthread -I../libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/pthread/bits -I../libpthread/nptl/sysdeps/generic -I../libc/sysdeps/linux/common -isystem /home/eugene/Documents/work/cases/13220_toolchain/crosstool-ng/.build/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/buildtools/lib/gcc/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/8.1.0/include-fixed -isystem /home/eugene/Documents/work/cases/13220_toolchain/crosstool-ng/.build/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/buildtools/lib/gcc/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/8.1.0/include -I/home/eugene/x-tools/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include/ -DNDEBUG -fstack-protector-all -I../ldso/ldso/mips -I../ldso/include -DUCLIBC_RUNTIME_PREFIX="/" -DUCLIBC_LDSO="ld-uClibc.so.1" -I..///home/eugene/x-tools/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include/ -DNOT_IN_libc -B../lib -Wl,-rpath-link,../lib -fstack-protector-all -I../ldso/ldso/mips -I../ldso/include -DUCLIBC_RUNTIME_PREFIX="/" -DUCLIBC_LDSO="ld-uClibc.so.1" -I..///home/eugene/x-tools/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/sysroot/usr/include/ -DNOT_IN_libc -B../lib -Wl,-rpath-link,../lib -DGETCONF_DIR='"/home/eugene/Documents/work/cases/13220_toolchain/crosstool-ng/.build/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/build/build-libc-final/multilib/utils"' -MT ../utils/getconf -MD -MP -MF ../utils/.getconf.dep
[ALL ] ../utils/getconf.c: In function 'main':
[ALL ] ../utils/getconf.c:1238:6: warning: statement will never be executed [-Wswitch-unreachable]
[ALL ] {
[ALL ] ^
[ALL ] /home/eugene/Documents/work/cases/13220_toolchain/crosstool-ng/.build/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/buildtools/lib/gcc/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/8.1.0/../../../../mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: cannot find -lssp_nonshared
[ALL ] /home/eugene/Documents/work/cases/13220_toolchain/crosstool-ng/.build/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/buildtools/lib/gcc/mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/8.1.0/../../../../mipsel-ndms-linux-uclibc/bin/ld: cannot find -lssp
[ERROR] collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
[ALL ] Makefile.in:114: recipe for target '../utils/getconf' failed
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