Finally used the discovered paths from ./configure in scripts/crosstool-NG.sh:
- fix Makefile to really, really not used built-in rules and variables
- have scripts/crosstool-NG.sh generated from scripts/crosstool-NG.sh.in
- create a bin-overide directory ( in ${CT_WORK_DIR}/bin ) that contains shell wrappers to the actual discovered tools

/trunk/scripts/crosstool-NG.sh.in | 27 23 4 0 +++++++++++++++++++++---
/trunk/Makefile.in | 50 48 2 0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

 --- glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h	2006-07-29 07:43:27.000000000 +0300

 +++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h.new	2008-07-26 08:45:06.000000000 +0300

 @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@

  /* The *at syscalls were introduced just after 2.6.16-rc1.  Due to the way the

     kernel versions are advertised we can only rely on 2.6.17 to have

     the code.  */

 -#if __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >= 0x020611

 +#if __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >= 0x020611 && !defined __alpha__

  # define __ASSUME_ATFCTS	1

  #endif