yann@434: http://in3www.epfl.ch/~schaffne/glibc-configure-apple-as.patch
yann@434: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2004-02/msg00151.html
yann@434: 
yann@434: The following makes it possible to configure glibc-2.3.2 on Mac OS X,
yann@434: where the assembler but doesn't understand the --version flag.
yann@434: 
yann@434: Fixes the symptom
yann@434: checking whether ld is GNU ld... no
yann@434: checking for /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as... /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as
yann@434: checking version of /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as...
yann@434: <PAUSES HERE AND JUST SITS THERE DOING NOTHING>
yann@434: 
yann@434: NOTE:  This patch should apparently be pushed upstream so we don't need to
yann@434: keep adding it here.
yann@434: 
yann@434: --- glibc-2.3.2/configure~	Wed Feb 26 09:20:48 2003
yann@434: +++ glibc-2.3.2/configure	Fri Feb 27 13:12:53 2004
yann@434: @@ -4524,7 +4524,7 @@
yann@434:    # Found it, now check the version.
yann@434:    { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of $AS" >&5
yann@434:  echo $ECHO_N "checking version of $AS... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
yann@434: -  ac_prog_version=`$AS --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
yann@434: +  ac_prog_version=`$AS -v </dev/null 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
yann@434:    case $ac_prog_version in
yann@434:      '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
yann@434:      2.1[3-9]*)