configure --with-as broken

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <orlnlxp3pu.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br>you write:
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  > Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
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  > > 	* configure.in: Ignore non-absolute value in $AS.
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  > How about the attached patch to fix this problem?
This this still needed?

If it is, and Andreas agrees that is fixes his problem, then it is OK with me.

jeff