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Re: HOST TYPE
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Dirk Eddelbuettel |
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Re: HOST TYPE |
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Tue, 26 May 1998 19:34:37 -0400 (EDT) |
AW> I run LINUX latest kernel and DLD 5.3.
AW>
AW> While calling ./configure I get
AW>
AW> ./configure
AW> loading cache ./config.cache
AW> checking host system type... configure:
AW> error: can not guess host type; you must specify one
AW>
AW> Can anyone help me ??
This suggests three answers:
First, You can specify a host system by giving it as an argument to
configure. Ie, on my Pentium,
./configure --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu
passes exactly the same value to configure that it would have guessed
anyway. See './configure --help' for more options.
Second, you can also use a precompiled version as (statically-linked)
binaries for Linux are provided by John Eaton at the Octave website.
Third, I suspect that your installation of DLD Linux is incomplete. I have
compiled GNU software under SunOS, AIX, Linux, ... and have always seen
configure coming up with a reasonable guess. In case you have everything you
should need installed: complain loud and clear to Deutsche Linux Distribution
(DLD) for shipping you a hosed system. Octave builds just fine on a variety
of other Linux systems.
Beste Grüße, Dirk
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