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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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On 22 Aug 2021 09:11, Olivier Galibert via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Add the configure parameters
> --with-{as,ld,ar,objdump,objcopy,gprof}=path to optionally force the
> path for these programs without having to tweak the output of
> $CC -print-prog-name in some way.
> 
> In addition, when --with-{as,ld} is used the corresponding program
> version is not check.  The user gets to keep all the pieces if it
> blows.
> 
> In practice, according to a build log on x86-64, $AS and $LD are never
> used directly.  $AR, $OBJDUMP and $OBJCOPY are though, and the llvm
> variants don't seem to have any issue.

i don't think we need configure flags for these.  we don't have them for CC
or CXX or CPP.  you just need to declare AC_ARG_VAR on these and omit the
AC_ARG_WITH logic.
-mike