[ixp1200] gdb endian-ness problem

Hello people, I'd recompiled gdb with the arm toolchain and modified its makefile with the -mbig-endian option ('cos the gdb binary provided at netwinder.org does not work on Debian!). When I run gdb remotely with an armv4b-compiled-and-linked program executable, the target is recognized as armv4b-unknown-linux but I get a warning that the big-endian file did not match the little-endian target. What am I missing here? Do I need to include options for the linker (-EB option) anywhere in the makefile to convince gdb that the specified target is big-endian? Can I just ignore this warning and carry on? Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you for your time. - Sundar.