incompatible spec files?

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> 
> 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

Replacing *asm should work.

> 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)
> 

You have found out it.

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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)