This version of binutils was compiled from the vanila 2.18.50-20080109
snapshot.  It was compiled with the following options:

../binutils-2.18.50/configure \
  --prefix=/mingw/ \
  --build=mingw32 \
  --host=mingw32 \
  --target=mingw32 \
  --with-gcc \
  --with-gnu-as \
  --with-gnu-ld \
  --disable-nls
make CFLAGS="-s -O2 -mms-bitfields -mtune=i686"
for i in `find . -type f -iname dir`; do rm $i; done
make prefix=`cd ../dist;pwd` install