diff --git a/package/base/gdb/installed-by-binutils.patch b/package/base/gdb/installed-by-binutils.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6331d27e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base/gdb/installed-by-binutils.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
+# 
+# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
+# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
+# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
+# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
+# 
+# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/base/gdb/installed-by-binutils.patch
+# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2005 Clifford Wolf
+# 
+# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
+# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
+# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+# version.
+# 
+# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
+
+Do not install the bfd and obcode libraries and/or other files -
+the binutils package supplies them.
+
+  - Clifford Wold & Rene Rebe
+
+--- ./bfd/Makefile.in.orig	Fri Aug 30 10:11:44 2002
++++ ./bfd/Makefile.in	Sat Jan 18 20:08:01 2003
+@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
+ INCDIR = $(srcdir)/../include
+ CSEARCH = -I. -I$(srcdir) -I$(INCDIR)
+ MKDEP = gcc -MM
+-SUBDIRS = doc po
++SUBDIRS = doc
+ docdir = doc
+ bfdlib_LTLIBRARIES = libbfd.la
+ AM_CFLAGS = $(WARN_CFLAGS)
+@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@
+ 	for dir in "$(DESTDIR)$(bfdlibdir)"; do \
+ 	  test -z "$$dir" || $(mkdir_p) "$$dir"; \
+ 	done
+-install: install-recursive
++install:
+ install-exec: install-exec-recursive
+ install-data: install-data-recursive
+ uninstall: uninstall-recursive
+--- ./etc/Makefile.in.orig	Sat Jan 26 22:35:45 2002
++++ ./etc/Makefile.in	Sat Jan 18 19:59:43 2003
+@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
+ DVIFILES = standards.dvi configure.dvi
+ 
+ all: info
+-install: install-info
++install:
+ 
+ uninstall:
+ 
+--- ./opcodes/Makefile.in.orig	Wed Aug 28 12:38:50 2002
++++ ./opcodes/Makefile.in	Sat Jan 18 20:09:32 2003
+@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
+ target_os = @target_os@
+ target_vendor = @target_vendor@
+ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.9 cygnus
+-SUBDIRS = po
++SUBDIRS =
+ INCDIR = $(srcdir)/../include
+ BFDDIR = $(srcdir)/../bfd
+ MKDEP = gcc -MM
+@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@
+ 	for dir in "$(DESTDIR)$(bfdlibdir)"; do \
+ 	  test -z "$$dir" || $(mkdir_p) "$$dir"; \
+ 	done
+-install: install-recursive
++install:
+ install-exec: install-exec-recursive
+ install-data: install-data-recursive
+ uninstall: uninstall-recursive
+--- ./libiberty/Makefile.in.orig	2003-10-21 22:45:19.000000000 +0200
++++ ./libiberty/Makefile.in	2003-10-21 22:46:00.000000000 +0200
+@@ -267,7 +267,8 @@
+ @MAINT@	echo stamp > stamp-functions
+ 
+ INSTALL_DEST = @INSTALL_DEST@
+-install: install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) install-subdir
++install:
++#install: install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) install-subdir
+ 
+ install_to_libdir: all
+ 	${mkinstalldirs} $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)$(MULTISUBDIR)