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(-)

diff -dur ELFkickers.orig/sstrip/Makefile ELFkickers/sstrip/Makefile

--- ELFkickers.orig/sstrip/Makefile	2001-03-24 12:58:27.000000000 +0100

+++ ELFkickers/sstrip/Makefile	2007-05-31 21:17:18.000000000 +0200

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@

 #  Makefile for sstrip

 sstrip: sstrip.c

-	gcc -ggdb -Wall -W -o sstrip sstrip.c

+	$(CC) -Wall -W -o sstrip sstrip.c

 clean:

 	rm -f sstrip