diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/toolchain-funcs.eclass b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/toolchain-funcs.eclass
index 4559894ca0..8fef764ad5 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/toolchain-funcs.eclass
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/portage-stable/eclass/toolchain-funcs.eclass
@@ -534,10 +534,9 @@ tc-ld-force-bfd() {
 	ewarn "Forcing usage of the BFD linker"
 
 	# Set up LD to point directly to bfd if it's available.
-	local ld=$(tc-getLD "$@")
-	# We need to extract the first word in case there are flags appended
-	# to its value (like multilib), bug #545218.
-	local bfd_ld="${ld%% *}.bfd"
+	# Unset LD first so we get the default value from tc-getLD.
+	local ld=$(unset LD; tc-getLD "$@")
+	local bfd_ld="${ld}.bfd"
 	local path_ld=$(type -P "${bfd_ld}" 2>/dev/null)
 	[[ -e ${path_ld} ]] && export LD=${bfd_ld}