diff -durN glibc-2.9.orig/configure glibc-2.9/configure
--- glibc-2.9.orig/configure	2010-05-18 23:47:23.000000000 +0200
+++ glibc-2.9/configure	2010-05-18 23:50:04.000000000 +0200
@@ -4534,7 +4534,7 @@
   ac_prog_version=`$AS --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU assembler.* \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
   case $ac_prog_version in
     '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
-    2.1[3-9]*)
+    2.1[3-9]*|2.1[0-9][0-9]*|2.[2-9][0-9]*|[3-9].*|[1-9][0-9]*)
        ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, ok"; ac_verc_fail=no;;
     *) ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
 
@@ -4597,7 +4597,7 @@
   ac_prog_version=`$LD --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU ld.* \([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
   case $ac_prog_version in
     '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
-    2.1[3-9]*)
+    2.1[3-9]*|2.1[0-9][0-9]*|2.[2-9][0-9]*|[3-9].*|[1-9][0-9]*)
        ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, ok"; ac_verc_fail=no;;
     *) ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
 
diff -durN glibc-2.9.orig/configure.in glibc-2.9/configure.in
--- glibc-2.9.orig/configure.in	2010-05-18 23:47:23.000000000 +0200
+++ glibc-2.9/configure.in	2010-05-18 23:51:25.000000000 +0200
@@ -844,10 +844,10 @@
 # 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="$critic_missing as")
+		  [2.1[3-9]*|2.1[0-9][0-9]*|2.[2-9][0-9]*|[3-9].*|[1-9][0-9]*], AS=: critic_missing="$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="$critic_missing ld")
+		  [2.1[3-9]*|2.1[0-9][0-9]*|2.[2-9][0-9]*|[3-9].*|[1-9][0-9]*], LD=: critic_missing="$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