http://in3www.epfl.ch/~schaffne/glibc-configure-apple-as.patch http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2004-02/msg00151.html The following makes it possible to configure glibc-2.3.2 on Mac OS X, where the assembler but doesn't understand the --version flag. Fixes the symptom checking whether ld is GNU ld... no checking for /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as... /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as checking version of /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as... --- glibc-2.3.2/configure~ Wed Feb 26 09:20:48 2003 +++ glibc-2.3.2/configure Fri Feb 27 13:12:53 2004 @@ -3789,7 +3789,7 @@ # Found it, now check the version. echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of $AS" >&5 echo $ECHO_N "checking version of $AS... $ECHO_C" >&6 - ac_prog_version=`$AS --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'` + ac_prog_version=`$AS -v &1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'` case $ac_prog_version in '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;; 2.1[3-9]*)
