Re: emacs build failure on today's debian

[Glenn Morris]

Nice (I did not know about AS_DIRNAME). Maybe add a "2> /dev/null" for
the $CC call? Personally I would have only asked gcc if the existing
system-dependent stuff failed to find crt, but doing it before is fine
too.

Miles Bader wrote:

> +## 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