Where is AS located after Binutils is installed?

[Jeffrey Walton]

> However, you won't have much luck with that, because binutils doesn't
> come with GNU as on OS X.

Perfect, thanks Clemens. (or maybe not...).

Let me spin up another thread on how to solve this problem, then.

Jeff

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
>
>
> ----- On 9 Apr, 2015, at 21:57, Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I installed binutils in an effort to get the updated assembler. But I
>> can't seem to find it:
>
> The canonical way to find stuff installed by a certain port is
>   port contents $portname | grep $whatyouneed,
> i.e. in your case
>   port contents binutils | grep -E 'as$'
>
>> Where is AS located after binutils is installed?
>
> However, you won't have much luck with that, because binutils doesn't
> come with GNU as on OS X. That's not a choice MacPorts made, but done
> by upstream's configure.ac, see line 909, where it says
>   noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs ld gas gprof"
> in a case matching x86_64-*-darwin*.
>
> I assume this is because GNU as is actually not useful on OS X, but you'd
> have to ask upstream on details.
>