Here's a patch for configure.in that prevents stderr from the test in
configure that checks to see if Sun or GNU as is installed on a Solaris
system.
GNU as outputs it's help to stdout, and Sun as does it via stderr. This
patch prevents any annoying stderr from leaking through to the screen.
/dale
--- configure.in-orig Thu Feb 21 11:53:49 2002
+++ configure.in Thu Feb 21 12:07:13 2002
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@
*sparc*)
OSDIR="solaris_sparc"
eolstr="\\n"
- is_gnu_as=`${AS} --help | grep gnu.org`
+ is_gnu_as=`${AS} --help 2>/dev/null | grep gnu.org`
if [ -z "$is_gnu_as" ]
then
ASFLAGS="-xarch=v8plus -KPIC -q"