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 diff -dur binutils-2.17.old/ld/Makefile.am binutils-2.17/ld/Makefile.am
2 --- binutils-2.17.old/ld/Makefile.am 2006-06-03 06:45:50.000000000 +0200
3 +++ binutils-2.17/ld/Makefile.am 2007-05-01 18:26:09.000000000 +0200
5 # We put the scripts in the directory $(scriptdir)/ldscripts.
6 # We can't put the scripts in $(datadir) because the SEARCH_DIR
7 # directives need to be different for native and cross linkers.
8 -scriptdir = $(tooldir)/lib
12 EMULATION_OFILES = @EMULATION_OFILES@
13 diff -dur binutils-2.17.old/ld/Makefile.in binutils-2.17/ld/Makefile.in
14 --- binutils-2.17.old/ld/Makefile.in 2006-06-03 06:45:50.000000000 +0200
15 +++ binutils-2.17/ld/Makefile.in 2007-05-01 18:26:09.000000000 +0200
17 # We put the scripts in the directory $(scriptdir)/ldscripts.
18 # We can't put the scripts in $(datadir) because the SEARCH_DIR
19 # directives need to be different for native and cross linkers.
20 -scriptdir = $(tooldir)/lib
21 +scriptdir = $(libdir)
22 BASEDIR = $(srcdir)/..
23 BFDDIR = $(BASEDIR)/bfd
24 INCDIR = $(BASEDIR)/include