ld BFD 2.15 assertion fail

I'm trying to build ucbmpeg from multiverse on hoary and it fails with this error:

gcc -Iheaders -I/usr/include -Ijpeg -O -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -o
mpeg_encode mfwddct.o postdct.o huff.o bitio.o mheaders.o mpeg.o subsample.o
param.o rgbtoycc.o readframe.o combine.o jrevdct.o frame.o fsize.o frametype.o
libpnmrw.o specifics.o rate.o opts.o iframe.o pframe.o bframe.o psearch.o
bsearch.o block.o parallel.o jpeg.o main.o -Ljpeg jpeg/libjpeg.a -lm
collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]
/usr/bin/ld: BFD 2.15 assertion fail ../../bfd/elflink.c:6081
make: *** [mpeg_encode] Error 1

similar bugs appear in RedHat's bugzilla with suggestions that newer binutils
fixes this.