Support GNU Binutils 2.20 and beyond.  Patch from
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2009-09/msg00009.html .

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 48e6952..b1d84d7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -4841,7 +4841,7 @@ $as_echo_n "checking version of $AS... " >&6; }
   ac_prog_version=`$AS --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
   case $ac_prog_version in
     '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
-    2.1[3-9]*)
+    2.1[3-9]*|[2-9].[2-9]*)
        ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, ok"; ac_verc_fail=no;;
     *) ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
 
@@ -4904,7 +4904,7 @@ $as_echo_n "checking version of $LD... " >&6; }
   ac_prog_version=`$LD --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU ld.* \([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
   case $ac_prog_version in
     '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
-    2.1[3-9]*)
+    2.1[3-9]*|[2-9].[2-9]*)
        ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, ok"; ac_verc_fail=no;;
     *) ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4584afe..7c4f71f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -897,10 +897,10 @@ AC_SUBST(MIG)dnl Needed by sysdeps/mach/configure.in
 # Accept binutils 2.13 or newer.
 AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(AS, $AS, --version,
 		  [GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\)],
-		  [2.1[3-9]*], AS=: critic_missing="$critic_missing as")
+		  [2.1[3-9]*|[2-9].[2-9]*], AS=: critic_missing="$critic_missing as")
 AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(LD, $LD, --version,
 		  [GNU ld.* \([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\)],
-		  [2.1[3-9]*], LD=: critic_missing="$critic_missing ld")
+		  [2.1[3-9]*|[2-9].[2-9]*], LD=: critic_missing="$critic_missing ld")
 
 # We need the physical current working directory.  We cannot use the
 # "pwd -P" shell builtin since that's not portable.  Instead we try to