Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
1 http://in3www.epfl.ch/~schaffne/glibc-configure-apple-as.patch
2 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2004-02/msg00151.html
4 The following makes it possible to configure glibc-2.3.2 on Mac OS X,
5 where the assembler but doesn't understand the --version flag.
8 checking whether ld is GNU ld... no
9 checking for /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as... /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as
10 checking version of /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as...
11 <PAUSES HERE AND JUST SITS THERE DOING NOTHING>
13 --- glibc-2.3.2/configure~ Wed Feb 26 09:20:48 2003
14 +++ glibc-2.3.2/configure Fri Feb 27 13:12:53 2004
16 # Found it, now check the version.
17 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of $AS" >&5
18 echo $ECHO_N "checking version of $AS... $ECHO_C" >&6
19 - ac_prog_version=`$AS --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
20 + ac_prog_version=`$AS -v </dev/null 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
21 case $ac_prog_version in
22 '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
25 Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>