It seems that new -revision of binutils has added gold version to the end of version string and this confuses the test. A related issue is that glibc is ignoring $LD variable. Here's the snippet from glibc's build.log: checking for /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld... /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld checking version of /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld... v. ?.??, bad ld -V output: GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.22) 1.11 config.log is not informative.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 269274 ***