Re: emacs build failure on today's debian

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

How's this?  -miles


2011-06-16  Miles Bader  <miles@gnu.org>

	* configure.in: Try to determine CRT_DIR automatically when
	using gcc.

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 9e7ea85..60f7c4e 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -988,6 +988,21 @@ dnl Do this early because it can frob feature test macros for Unix-98 &c.
 AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
 
 
+## If we're using gcc, and the user hasn't specified a crt-dir, try to
+## determine it automatically by asking gcc.  [If this doesn't work,
+## CRT_DIR will remain empty and system-dependent code will be used
+## below.]
+##
+if test "x${GCC}y$CRT_DIR" = xyesy; then
+   crt_file=`$CC --print-file-name=crt1.o`
+   case "$crt_file" in
+     */*)
+       CRT_DIR=`AS_DIRNAME(["$crt_file"])`
+       ;;
+   esac
+fi
+
+
 ## If user specified a crt-dir, use that unconditionally.
 if test "X$CRT_DIR" = "X"; then
 


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