A user in IRC reported that binutils patch failed because of sys-devel/patch version. Diego pushed a fix to the tree, needs to be synced to prefix tree. See bug 391385
synced to 2.22-r1
*** Bug 440172 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 444284 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 538150 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***