configure --with-as broken

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < vyzsogby6ca.fsf@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de >you write:
  > The test in configure that checks the value of $AS should be skipped when
  > it is not an absolute file name, because $AS is always set due to
  > $GCC_FLAGS_TO_PASS in the toplevel Makefile.
  > 
  > 
  > 1998-10-24  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
  > 
  > 	* configure.in: Ignore non-absolute value in $AS.
This is fine.  Please install this patch.

Thanks,
jeff