Bug#2500: emacs and architecture dependencies

[Juergen Menden <menden@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>]

On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> The control file architecture name should be the one printed by
> `dpkg --print-architecture'.

well, it would make things a little easier. nevertheless for some
packages the value might get corrected for the configuration.

so the relevant portion in emacs might be:
  # uname returns i[345]86. only one of them is known by ./configure
  ConfigIntelArch=i486

  # get the config architecture name
  ConfigArch=`dpkg --print-architecture | sed -e 's/i386/$(ConfigIntelArch)/'`
  # get the control file architecture name
  ControlArch=`dpkg --print-architecture`

and even further: since AFAIK the difference between i386 and i486
in emacs is only in the different name of the directory
   .../lib/emacs/19.xx/386-linux
one might even directly take dpkg --print-architecture for
configuring.

jjm

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