Error in '/usr/bin/ld': corrupted double-linked list

[Michael Kuhn]

I have found a very peculiar bug in binutils's ld tool: When building evolution-data-server in an i386 virtual machine (I have reproduced it in my saucy PPA with a binutils backport and in a VirtualBox machine with both saucy and trusty), ld crashes at the following configure step:

checking if gcc static flag -static works...

This results in the following error:

Error in '/usr/bin/ld': corrupted double-linked list: 0x...

As already mentioned, it seems to only happen in virtual machines and only with i386 (amd64 is fine).
I have installed older binutils versions and it seems that (if I remember correctly) 2.23.90.20131116-1ubuntu1 and earlier are okay; 2.23.91.20131123-1ubuntu1 and later produce the error.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Get evolution-data-server's source package
2. Try to build it
3. It should crash in the line above

If I can provide more information, just let me know.