build: avoid stdin stall with GNU AS probing.

a758c5e added probing for various tools, such as AS. Unfortunately, GNU
AS is reading stdin with -v, and thus configure is stalled with
configure arguments such as --as=as.

Fixes Ticket #1898.
(cherry picked from commit dbb41f93c1)

configure

@@ -2878,7 +2878,9 @@ probe_cc(){
     unset _depflags _DEPCMD _DEPFLAGS
     _flags_filter=echo
 
-    if $_cc -v 2>&1 | grep -q '^gcc.*LLVM'; then
+    if $_cc --version 2>&1 | grep -q '^GNU assembler'; then
+        true # no-op to avoid reading stdin in following checks
+    elif $_cc -v 2>&1 | grep -q '^gcc.*LLVM'; then
         _type=llvm_gcc
         gcc_extra_ver=$(expr "$($_cc --version | head -n1)" : '.*\((.*)\)')
         _ident="llvm-gcc $($_cc -dumpversion) $gcc_extra_ver"