--- glibc-2.7-old/configure.in	2010-08-05 15:41:13.379279183 +0200
+++ glibc-2.7-new/configure.in	2010-08-05 15:46:30.236940604 +0200
@@ -842,10 +842,10 @@
 # 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="$critic_missing as")
+		  [2.1[3-9]*|2.1[0-9][0-9]*|2.[2-9]*]|[3-9].*, AS=: critic_missing="$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="$critic_missing ld")
+		  [2.1[3-9]*|2.1[0-9][0-9]*|2.[2-9]*]|[3-9].*, LD=: critic_missing="$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