Bug#896057: gcc-7: doesn't look for "as" in dir specified by -B

[Bob McChesney <bmcchesney@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:20:33 +0200 Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> wrote:
> * Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>, 2018-04-19, 06:36:
> >>perhaphs gcc-7 should ship an appropriate symlink in
> >>/usr/lib/gcc/<triplet>/7/, instead of hardcoding path to "as" at
> >>configure time?
> --
> Jakub Wilk

Please could assist with what you believe the best workaround is to get 
this working again? I've tried the latest build (7.3.0-17) and it's 
still not working. Adding a symlink didn't seem to help.

Thanks,
Bob McChesney