PATCH Finding gas

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < oru32gh1in.fsf@rabico.lsd.dcc.unicamp.br >you write:
  > > I wouldn't object to being able to provide initial pathnames to search
  > > to find gas & ld at configure time.  I would object to schemes which
  > > try to autodetect the location of gas/gld -- that's more of an
  > > interface change than I'm comfortable with.
  > 
  > I was not suggesting that we should look for gas or gld, I'm just
  > suggesting that configure searches for `as' and/or `ld' in the PATH if
  > AS and/or LD are not defined.  But now I see this *can* break existing
  > behavior (for example, it might break my current installation
  > scripts).  Here's a reworked suggestion:
  > 
  > 
  > 1) if AS (--with-as=...) and/or LD (--with-ld=...) were specified,
  > these pathnames should be hard-coded in gcc
And I've said this would be OK.

  > 2) otherwise, if binutils is being compiled with gcc, the pathnames
  > where as and ld will be installed should be hard-coded in gcc
No need.  If they are being compiled together they will be installed
in the same prefix and the binutils will be found automatically.

jeff