diff --git a/sys-devel/avr_binutils/avr_binutils-2.24_2014_03_19.recipe b/sys-devel/avr_binutils/avr_binutils-2.24_2014_03_19.recipe
index 710cc0a4c..d0c11395c 100644
--- a/sys-devel/avr_binutils/avr_binutils-2.24_2014_03_19.recipe
+++ b/sys-devel/avr_binutils/avr_binutils-2.24_2014_03_19.recipe
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ SOURCE_DIR="buildtools-$srcGitRev/binutils"
 BUILD_PACKAGE_ACTIVATION_PHASE=INSTALL
 
 sourceDir=$(pwd)
-relativeInstallDir="develop/tools$secondaryArchSubDir"
+relativeInstallDir="develop/tools/avr"
 installDir="$prefix/$relativeInstallDir"
 objectsDir=$(pwd)/../${portVersionedName}-obj
 
@@ -108,6 +108,16 @@ INSTALL()
 
 	strip --strip-debug $binDir/*
 
+	### Symlinks ##############################################
+
+	echo "Creating required symlinks"
+
+	# There are copies of a subset of the commands below installDir. We
+	# overwrite those with symlinks to the ones in binDir.
+	for file in $installDir/avr/bin/*; do
+		symlinkRelative -sfn $binDir/avr-$(basename $file) $file
+	done
+
 	### Cleanup #################################################
 
 	echo "Cleanup"