http://in3www.epfl.ch/~schaffne/glibc-configure-apple-as.patchhttp://sources.redhat.com/ml/crossgcc/2004-02/msg00151.htmlThe following makes it possible to configure glibc-2.3.2 on Mac OS X,where the assembler but doesn't understand the --version flag.Fixes the symptomchecking whether ld is GNU ld... nochecking for /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as... /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/aschecking version of /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as... <PAUSES HERE AND JUST SITS THERE DOING NOTHING>--- glibc-2.3.2/configure~ Wed Feb 26 09:20:48 2003+++ glibc-2.3.2/configure Fri Feb 27 13:12:53 2004@@ -4039,7 +4039,7 @@ # Found it, now check the version. echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking version of $AS" >&5 echo $ECHO_N "checking version of $AS... $ECHO_C" >&6- ac_prog_version=`$AS --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`+ ac_prog_version=`$AS -v </dev/null 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'` case $ac_prog_version in '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;; 2.1[3-9]*)Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>