configure fails because there are too many arguments in the test statement. I believe the following change needs to be back ported:
2007-08-23 Brian Sidebotham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * configure.ac (leb128): Modify sed statement to work with any binutils version string. * configure: Regenerate -- Summary: Version check (leb128) fails with GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.20080830 Product: gcc Version: 4.2.4 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: bootstrap AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: danglin at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC build triplet: hppa-unknown-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: hppa-unknown-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: hppa-unknown-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37295