incompatible spec files?

[Christopher Seawood <cls at seawood dot org>]

I sent in a bug report with the egcs-1.0 release stating that I could not
run old versions of gcc with the standard 'gcc -V ${vnum} -b ${arch}'
command.  Gnu as kept complaining about not accepting the -V ${vnum}
command. This doesn't work under 1.0.1 either.  Apparently the spec file
changed somewhat between these releases.  When I replaced the *asm &
*asm_final entries from the old gcc 2.7.2.3 release with the egcs
release, it seemed to work fine.  It compiled the file at least.  This was
under a linux glibc2 system with binutils 2.8.1.0.18. 

Anyone have any idea on how to get around this? (Other than having
separate gcc & egcs binaries)

Regards
Christopher
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Christopher Seawood             * Software Engineer/System Admin
cls@seawood.org                 * http://www.seawood.org