Comment 5 for bug 1781242

Successfully verified on xenial:

ubuntu@hwe0001:~$ apt-cache policy binutils
binutils:
  Installed: 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.7
  Candidate: 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.7
  Version table:
 *** 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.7 500
        500 http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-proposed/main s390x Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.6 500
        500 http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-updates/main s390x Packages
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-security/main s390x Packages
     2.26-8ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial/main s390x Packages
ubuntu@hwe0001:~$ as -march=foo
Assembler messages:
Error: invalid switch -march=foo
Error: unrecognized option -march=foo
ubuntu@hwe0001:~$ as -march=
Assembler messages:
Error: invalid switch -march=
Error: unrecognized option -march=
ubuntu@hwe0001:~$

Switching the verification tags accordingly ...