diff -Nuar glibc-2.9-20081201.orig/configure glibc-2.9-20081201/configure
--- glibc-2.9-20081201.orig/configure	2009-05-15 14:35:24.000000000 +0200
+++ glibc-2.9-20081201/configure	2009-05-15 14:38:41.000000000 +0200
@@ -4594,7 +4594,7 @@
   # Found it, now check the version.
   { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of $LD" >&5
 echo $ECHO_N "checking version of $LD... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
-  ac_prog_version=`$LD --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU ld.* \([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
+  ac_prog_version=`$LD --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU.*(Linux\/GNU Binutils.* \([0-9].[0-9.].*\)).*$/\1/p'`
   case $ac_prog_version in
     '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
     2.1[3-9]*)