configure.{in -> ac} rename (commit 35eafcc71b) broke in-tree binutils building of gcc

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 15.07.15 at 03:20, <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:13:06AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> (there doesn't seem
>> to be a fix for this in gcc trunk either, which I originally expected I could
>> simply backport).
> 
> The configure.in->configure.ac rename happened over a year ago so I
> guess this shows that not too many people use combined binutils+gcc
> builds nowadays.  I've always found combined binutils+gcc builds not
> worth the bother compared to simply building and installing binutils
> first, as Jim suggests.

That doesn't work well when you want to specifically avoid
installing, instead running directly from the build tree.

Jan