[Bug other/33357] collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]

[don-gcc at isis dot cs3-inc dot com (Don Cohen)]

pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org writes:
 > This is ld crashing and ld is part of the binutils project.
Mike Frysinger writes:
 > you should start with what version of binutils you're actually using ... run 
 > `ld --version`
 > if that version != 2.18, then you should first upgrade

Thank you both for your replies.  I have now built binutils 2.18.
However I'm not root on this machine and so cannot install it in the
place where the original command (g++ -O3 -DDBUG_OFF ...) will find
it.  Can either of you tell me how to arrange for the g++ command to
use the version of ld I've just built?
I see at least two problems here.  First, g++ is not simply calling ld
on the same arguments - when I replace g++ with ld I get an error
about unrecognized option -DDBUG_OFF.
Second, I suspect that the ld I just built is the file
~/binutils-2.18/ld/ld-new - is that correct?