irix bootstrap dies in builtins.c

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:56:55PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> If so, that's your problem.  A gas this old can't possibly support it
> properly.  That's no problem, because we can add 2.9.* to the list of
> bad versions.

I guess we should check something like

  as_ver=`as --version | sed -e 's/.* //; q'`
  as_major=`echo $as_ver | sed 's/\..*//'`
  as_minor=`echo $as_ver | sed 's/[^.]*.\([^.]*\).*/\1/'`
  if test $as_major -le 2 -o $as_monor -lt 11; then
    fail
  else
    succeed
  fi


r~