Cannot install fglrx-kernel-source when binutils-gold is in use

I confirm this. Removal of binutils-gold works.
2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

binutils-gold seems to generally produce nonsense output on Ubuntu (tested on Lucid Beta 1): Installing binutils-gold and then trying to compile and link a simple C program gets you a dysfunctional binary. I'm not sure whether this should be reported upstream, or this is a Ubuntu problem.

cat > foo.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    printf("worked: %d\n", strcmp(argv[1], argv[2]));
    return 0;
}
^D

gcc -o foo foo.c
./foo x x
Segmentation fault

(Debugging reveals that the crash happens in strcmp.)

(PS: In any case I wouldn't expect gold to *replace* the default GNU linker by overwriting the /usr/bin/ld symlink -- it took me quite some time to figure this out.)

I probably should have mentioned that I'm using x86_64 Ubuntu Lucid (Beta 1) with a non-Ubuntu kernel (vanilla 2.6.32.6), libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu5, gcc-4.4.3-4ubuntu5. The gold version was binutils-gold 2.20.1-3ubuntu1.

The bug still occurs.

closing this as won't fix.
- the ubuntu-toolchain-r PPA has a newer binutils version available (at least for lucid)
- please recheck this with binutils in precise and quantal