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(-)

# MIPS specific config options

config ARCH_mips

    select ARCH_SUPPORTS_BOTH_ENDIAN

    select ARCH_DEFAULT_BE

    select ARCH_SUPPORT_ARCH

    select ARCH_SUPPORT_ABI

    select ARCH_SUPPORT_TUNE

    help

      The MIPS architecture, as defined by:

        http://www.mips.com/