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Re: Wrong as/ld picked by gcc configure

> The gcc driver calls pexecute which will use PATH unless MD_EXEC_PREFIX
> is defined. It has been this way for a long time. Did I miss something
> here?

The problem is that the $PATH searched during configure is not always
the same as the $PATH searched by the driver (it may not even be the
same machine), so configure can not rely on $PATH yielding useful
data.
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