diff -r 60446d2e5660 -r 4f21ba5f8e91 patches/binutils/2.20.1/130-ld-sysroot.patch
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/patches/binutils/2.20.1/130-ld-sysroot.patch	Tue Aug 17 19:48:49 2010 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+Signed-off-by: Sven Rebhan <odinshorse@googlemail.com>
+
+Always try to prepend the sysroot prefix to absolute filenames first.
+
+http://bugs.gentoo.org/275666
+http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10340
+
+diff -durN binutils-2.20.1.orig/ld/ldfile.c binutils-2.20.1/ld/ldfile.c
+--- binutils-2.20.1.orig/ld/ldfile.c	2009-08-30 00:11:01.000000000 +0200
++++ binutils-2.20.1/ld/ldfile.c	2010-08-17 19:32:08.000000000 +0200
+@@ -308,18 +308,24 @@
+      directory first.  */
+   if (! entry->is_archive)
+     {
+-      if (entry->sysrooted && IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (entry->filename))
++      /* For absolute pathnames, try to always open the file in the
++	 sysroot first. If this fails, try to open the file at the
++	 given location. */
++      entry->sysrooted = is_sysrooted_pathname(entry->filename, FALSE);
++      if (IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (entry->filename) && ld_sysroot && ! entry->sysrooted)
+ 	{
+ 	  char *name = concat (ld_sysroot, entry->filename,
+ 			       (const char *) NULL);
+ 	  if (ldfile_try_open_bfd (name, entry))
+ 	    {
+ 	      entry->filename = name;
++	      entry->sysrooted = TRUE;
+ 	      return TRUE;
+ 	    }
+ 	  free (name);
+ 	}
+-      else if (ldfile_try_open_bfd (entry->filename, entry))
++
++      if (ldfile_try_open_bfd (entry->filename, entry))
+ 	{
+ 	  entry->sysrooted = IS_ABSOLUTE_PATH (entry->filename)
+ 	    && is_sysrooted_pathname (entry->filename, TRUE);