Link fails on building hdf5-1.8.21 under CentOS 7.6.1810

HDF5 Library
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Here is the configure script:
#!/bin/bash

hdf5-1.8.21.sh

./configure --prefix="/raid4/rjb2/opt/packages/hdf5-1.8.21"
–with-szlib="/raid4/rjb2/opt/packages/szip-2.1.1"
CC="/opt/gcc/gcc-8.2.0/bin/gcc"
CFLAGS="-m64 -fPIC -pthread -mcmodel=large -Wall -Wno-unused-variable
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -m128bit-long-double -mlarge-data-threshold=90000000"
LDFLAGS="-m64 -pthread -fPIC -Wl,-Map,hdf5-1.8.21.map"
CXX="/opt/gcc/gcc-8.2.0/bin/g++"
CPP="/opt/gcc/gcc-8.2.0/bin/g++ -E"
F77="/opt/gcc/gcc-8.2.0/bin/gfortran"
LD="/usr/bin/ld.gold"
FFLAGS="-m64 -fPIC -pthread -ffixed-line-length-132 -mcmodel=large
-fdec-structure -fdec -mlarge-data-threshold=90000000"

followed by make .... .... CCLD libhdf5.la /usr/bin/ld: .libs/H5Bcache.o(.text+0x850): unresolvable R_X86_64_PLTOFF64 relocation against symbol `memcmp@@GLIBC_2.2.5' /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libhdf5.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/raid4/rjb2/opt/build/hdf5-1.8.21/src' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/raid4/rjb2/opt/build/hdf5-1.8.21/src' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 rjb2@muggy2:/raid4/rjb2/opt/build/hdf5-1.8.21 [5261]

(the ld.gold was used simply from a suggestion on StackExchange)

hdf4-4.2.13 builds successfuly with a similar configure script

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The problem has been solved with an upgrade to binutils 2.27-41.
We tried building hdf5 on the following platforms with a default installation:

CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) - /usr/bin/ld - GNU ld version 2.25.1-32.base.el7_4.2 - good
CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) - /usr/bin/ld - GNU ld version 2.27-27.base.el7 - fail

CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) - /usr/bin/ld - GNU ld version 2.27-34.base.el7 - fail

Thomas loaded new bin utils on weather2 Centos 7.6

CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) - /usr/bin/ld - GNU ld version 2.27-41.base.el7 - good

So all new machines at Centos 7.6 need to have binutils upgraded to 2.27-41