Hi, considering that samtools now builds on mipsel and is not build for mips due to a missing Build-Depends and not because of this build problem[1] I think we could close this actual bug. Please tell me if you do not agree - otherwise I'll close this bug in a couple of days.
Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=samtools -- http://fam-tille.de