dang -- recent binutils causes "as, ld missing or too old"

[Daniel Kegel]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   refresh my memory -- how does one deal with both "as" and "ld" being
> perceived as:
> 
> configure: error:
> *** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld
> *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
> 
> i used a recent snapshot of binutils (binutils-050502.tar.bz2), and
> the executables generate the following output:
> 
> $ ./as --version
> GNU assembler 050502 20050502
> ...
> 
> $ ./ld --version
> GNU ld version 050502 20050502
> ...
> 
>   should i just bail and go back to a regular version of binutils?

Either that, or debug the configure script that's complaining,
and post a patch for it.
- Dan

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