* Steve Ellcey: > I am not sure, but my guess is that it is because I am building > binutils (including ld) using --with-sysroot.
That could be the case. I guess there are two conflicting use cases for sysroots, one where you want to mangle run-time paths to confine things to the sysroot, and one where the run-time paths are different from the sysroot paths (so it's more like a cross-compiler, even if the target is native). Thanks, Florian