Jan-Benedict,
I haven't given it any additional manual testing so far. It's pre-installation though. Maybe I'd just set WIND_BASE to some arbitrary value, just to make xgcc pass it's initial start-up test so that it can continue with self-testing? Or shall we set some value in gcc/Makefile.in for running the self-test?
As I recall, WIND_BASE is expected to point at a vxworks install to pick up header files. It is an error not to have it set (silently skipping it leads to user confusion).
If that's irrelevant for this testing environment, then setting it to something (probably just "", but safer might be "/These.are.not.the.dirs.you.are.looking.for") should be fine.
nathan