Comment 6 for bug 744908

Thank you for these links! I agree that it's a good way to go forward. But please make sure that upstream releases still work on your released distributions.
In this case, I tracked it down to my binutils installation. The latest binutils release compiles fine, but the result is unusable. The next binutils release should require no patches to work on Ubuntu, IMO (I didn't check, but I hope the required patches are already integrated upstream?).
In a perfect world the working binutils release would have happened before this change to Ubuntu. Until that is the case, I'd have placed symlinks in /usr/lib and /lib, so that compatibility with the old behavior were still available.

I now adjusted by GCC build script to patch binutils such that it works also on Ubuntu Natty.