Original patch from Gentoo:
gentoo/src/patchsets/binutils/2.19/12_all_sh-targets.patch

r10231 | lethal | 2005-05-02 09:58:00 -0400 (Mon, 02 May 2005) | 13 lines

Likewise, binutils has no idea about any of these new targets either, so we
fix that up too.. now we're able to actually build a real toolchain for
sh2a_nofpu- and other more ineptly named toolchains (and yes, there are more
inept targets than that one, really. Go look, I promise).

diff -durN binutils-2.19.orig/configure binutils-2.19/configure
--- binutils-2.19.orig/configure	2008-11-23 16:23:44.000000000 +0100
+++ binutils-2.19/configure	2008-11-23 16:23:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -2281,7 +2281,7 @@
   am33_2.0-*-linux*)
     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ${libgcj} target-newlib target-libgloss"
     ;;
-  sh-*-linux*)
+  sh*-*-linux*)
     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ${libgcj} target-newlib target-libgloss"
     ;;
   sh*-*-pe|mips*-*-pe|*arm-wince-pe)
@@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@
   romp-*-*)
     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs bfd binutils ld gas opcodes target-libgloss ${libgcj}"
     ;;
-  sh-*-* | sh64-*-*)
+  sh*-*-* | sh64-*-*)
     case "${host}" in
       i[3456789]86-*-vsta) ;; # don't add gprof back in
       i[3456789]86-*-go32*) ;; # don't add gprof back in
diff -durN binutils-2.19.orig/configure.ac binutils-2.19/configure.ac
--- binutils-2.19.orig/configure.ac	2008-10-16 15:45:42.000000000 +0200
+++ binutils-2.19/configure.ac	2008-11-23 16:23:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@
   am33_2.0-*-linux*)
     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ${libgcj} target-newlib target-libgloss"
     ;;
-  sh-*-linux*)
+  sh*-*-linux*)
     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ${libgcj} target-newlib target-libgloss"
     ;;    
   sh*-*-pe|mips*-*-pe|*arm-wince-pe)
@@ -855,7 +855,7 @@
   romp-*-*)
     noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs bfd binutils ld gas opcodes target-libgloss ${libgcj}"
     ;;
-  sh-*-* | sh64-*-*)
+  sh*-*-* | sh64-*-*)
     case "${host}" in
       i[[3456789]]86-*-vsta) ;; # don't add gprof back in
       i[[3456789]]86-*-go32*) ;; # don't add gprof back in