[Q] Configure: Choosing as on Solaris, --with-gnu-as, and --with-as

[Wolfgang Bangerth <wolfgang dot bangerth at iwr dot uni-heidelberg dot de>]

Hi everyone,
some years ago I fist tried installing gcc on Sun Solaris 2.7, and found
out that giving --with-gnu-as to configure still yields /usr/ccs/bin/as
(Sun's assembler) even though that comes later in $PATH. By some way I
found out that I have to specify --with-as=/usr/local/bin/as. Now, I
forgot again, so I searched docs and didn't find anything about it any
more.

Writing up a corresponding patch for the online docs, I found
a/ That neither --with-as=... nor --with-ld is documented in install.texi.
b/ That install.texi states that --with-gnu-as does only make a difference
   on certain systems, amoung which I do not find Sun Solaris, although
   I am sure that it actually *does* make a difference.

If someone could confirm that the latter is outdated, I can write up a
patch for install.texi as well, including a brief description of --with-as
and --with-ld.

Regards
  Wolfgang

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