diff -Nru glibc-2.17-c758a686/sysdeps/i386/Makefile glibc-2.17-c758a686/sysdeps/i386/Makefile

--- glibc-2.17-c758a686/sysdeps/i386/Makefile	2012-06-05 07:42:49.000000000 -0600

+++ glibc-2.17-c758a686/sysdeps/i386/Makefile	2012-06-07 12:15:21.826318641 -0600

@@ -62,6 +64,14 @@ endif

 ifneq (,$(filter -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs,$(CFLAGS)))

 defines += -DNO_TLS_DIRECT_SEG_REFS

+else

+# .a libraries are not performance critical and so we

+# build them without direct TLS segment references

+# always.

+CPPFLAGS-.o += -DNO_TLS_DIRECT_SEG_REFS

+CFLAGS-.o += -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs

+CPPFLAGS-.oS += -DNO_TLS_DIRECT_SEG_REFS

+CFLAGS-.oS += -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs

 endif

 ifeq ($(subdir),elf)