# assemblers detect this as an error, "Error: expecting string
# instruction after `rep'"
if compareVersions(gcc_version, "4.8") > 0:
- as_version = readCommand([main['AS'], '-v', '/dev/null'],
- exception=False).split()
+ as_version_raw = readCommand([main['AS'], '-v', '/dev/null'],
+ exception=False).split()
- if not as_version or compareVersions(as_version[-1], "2.23") < 0:
+ # version strings may contain extra distro-specific
+ # qualifiers, so play it safe and keep only what comes before
+ # the first hyphen
+ as_version = as_version_raw[-1].split('-')[0] if as_version_raw \
+ else None
+
+ if not as_version or compareVersions(as_version, "2.23") < 0:
print termcap.Yellow + termcap.Bold + \
'Warning: This combination of gcc and binutils have' + \
' known incompatibilities.\n' + \