Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 --- binutils-2.15/configure.old 2004-07-21 21:36:47.000000000 -0700
2 +++ binutils-2.15/configure 2004-07-21 21:37:08.000000000 -0700
5 # Some tools are only suitable for building in a "native" situation.
6 # Remove these if host!=target.
7 -native_only="autoconf automake libtool fileutils find gawk gettext gzip hello indent m4 rcs recode sed shellutils tar textutils uudecode wdiff gprof target-groff guile perl time ash bash bzip2 prms gnuserv target-gperf"
8 +native_only="autoconf automake libtool fileutils find gawk gettext gzip hello indent m4 rcs recode sed shellutils tar textutils uudecode wdiff target-groff guile perl time ash bash bzip2 prms gnuserv target-gperf"
10 # Similarly, some are only suitable for cross toolchains.
11 # Remove these if host=target.
12 --- binutils-2.15/configure.in.old 2004-07-21 21:37:19.000000000 -0700
13 +++ binutils-2.15/configure.in 2004-07-21 21:37:34.000000000 -0700
16 # Some tools are only suitable for building in a "native" situation.
17 # Remove these if host!=target.
18 -native_only="autoconf automake libtool fileutils find gawk gettext gzip hello indent m4 rcs recode sed shellutils tar textutils uudecode wdiff gprof target-groff guile perl time ash bash bzip2 prms gnuserv target-gperf"
19 +native_only="autoconf automake libtool fileutils find gawk gettext gzip hello indent m4 rcs recode sed shellutils tar textutils uudecode wdiff target-groff guile perl time ash bash bzip2 prms gnuserv target-gperf"
21 # Similarly, some are only suitable for cross toolchains.
22 # Remove these if host=target.