Upstream-Status="Pending" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10340 Signed-off-by: Sven Rebhan Always try to prepend the sysroot prefix to absolute filenames first. Index: binutils-2.21/ld/ldfile.c =================================================================== --- binutils-2.21.orig/ld/ldfile.c +++ binutils-2.21/ld/ldfile.c @@ -372,18 +372,24 @@ ldfile_open_file_search (const char *arc 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);