diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.5/builder.sh b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.5/builder.sh
index 4cd0132e370..bc80af83b92 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.5/builder.sh
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc-2.5/builder.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ preConfigure() {
             --replace "@PWD@" "pwd"
     done
 
+    # Fix shell code that tries to determine whether GNU ld is recent enough.
+    substituteInPlace configure --replace '2.1[3-9]*)' '2.1[3-9]*|2.[2-9][0-9]*)'
+
     mkdir ../build
     cd ../build