Bug#28177: dpkg --print-architecture requires gcc

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"Barak" == Barak Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu> writes:

 Barak> The emacs20 package (version 20.3-1) fails to configure, as it gets an
 Barak> error from "dpkg --print-architecture", which fails because it in turn
 Barak> calls "gcc --print-libgcc-file-name" but there is no gcc.

	Please file a bug against emacs. It should be using dpkg
 --print-installation-architecture which does not require gCC

 Barak> Perhaps dpkg, should its invocation of gcc fail, could resort to a
 Barak> lesser means of figuring out the architecture.

	It already does.

  dpkg --print-architecture               print target architecture (uses GCC)
  dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture     print GNU version of target arch
  dpkg --print-installation-architecture  print host architecture (for inst'n)


	This report should be reassigned to emacs20.

	manoj
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