build: avoid stdin stall with GNU AS probing.

a758c5e added probing for various tools, such as AS. Unfortunately, GNU
AS is reading stdin with -v, and thus configure is stalled with
configure arguments such as --as=as.

Fixes Ticket #1898.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 72abb0d227..5f80764552 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -2889,7 +2889,9 @@ probe_cc(){
     unset _depflags _DEPCMD _DEPFLAGS
     _flags_filter=echo
 
-    if $_cc -v 2>&1 | grep -q '^gcc.*LLVM'; then
+    if $_cc --version 2>&1 | grep -q '^GNU assembler'; then
+        true # no-op to avoid reading stdin in following checks
+    elif $_cc -v 2>&1 | grep -q '^gcc.*LLVM'; then
         _type=llvm_gcc
         gcc_extra_ver=$(expr "$($_cc --version | head -n1)" : '.*\((.*)\)')
         _ident="llvm-gcc $($_cc -dumpversion) $gcc_extra_ver"