I think that you'll get a lot of these problems until the toolchain is not properly found. Don't try to workaround things, there is a root problem ... gcc/ld are not present in your ndk. If that is fixed, everything will go way better !
Maybe try to reinstall your NDK. Apparently something went wrong when untar-bz contents of the ndk.
Normally a gcc, a ld a c++ command should be available in your ndk.
See what's in the ndk installed on my machine (it's ndk-r8b like you... but fully downloaded + untar) :
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 693088 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-addr2line*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 721444 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-ar*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 1249860 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-as*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 327200 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-c++*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 691584 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-c++filt*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 323104 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-cpp*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 23236 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-elfedit*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 327200 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-g++*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 323104 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-gcc*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 323104 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-gcc-4.6.x-google*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 117040 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-gcov*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 4093196 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-gdb*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 4093196 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-gdbtui*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 764480 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-gprof*
-rwxr-x--- 4 rmontoya rmontoya 1178148 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-ld*
-rwxr-x--- 4 rmontoya rmontoya 1178148 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-ld.bfd*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 2869016 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-ld.gold*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 705248 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-nm*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 900608 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-objcopy*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 1060064 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-objdump*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 721444 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-ranlib*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 344796 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-readelf*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 984220 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-run*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 694976 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-size*
-rwxr-x--- 1 rmontoya rmontoya 694112 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-strings*
-rwxr-x--- 2 rmontoya rmontoya 900608 juil. 3 07:50 arm-linux-androideabi-strip*
So try to reinstall : maybe the download didn't finished when you unzipped the ndk contents or something went wrong during download and not all binaries was retrieved from the
tar.bz.
With your current NDK, no android native code can be built. It's not related to csipsimple toolchain ;)... to get convinced, try to build samples from the ndk, you'll see that you'll get same problems !
2012/9/11 jre