Bart De VOS pointed out that removing absolute paths from the libc linker scripts is plainly wrong.
It dates from dawn ages of the original crosstool code, and is not well explained. At that time, binutils might not understand the sysroot stuff, and it was necessary to remove absolute paths in that case.

/trunk/scripts/build/libc/glibc.sh | 14 2 12 0 ++------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

 --- gcc-4.0.0/libstdc++-v3/configure-old	2005-04-30 22:04:48.061603912 -0500

 +++ gcc-4.0.0/libstdc++-v3/configure	2005-04-30 22:06:13.678588152 -0500

 @@ -7194,6 +7194,9 @@

  cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF

  /* end confdefs.h.  */

  #include <complex.h>

 +#ifdef __UCLIBC__

 +#error ugly hack to make sure configure test fails here for cross until uClibc supports the complex funcs

 +#endif

  int

  main ()

  {