Re: lynx-dev configure can't guess host type

[T.E.Dickey]

> I wanted to compile Lynx on my system here at work, running Mac OS X 
> (development version of course), and it can't guess the host type.  It's BSD 
> UNIX based, with Mach underneath. 
well, there's two ways to approach this (three, I guess):

        + patch config.guess to make a name in canonical form (and
          config.sub to accept it).  Most of the systems have a uname
          program which provides the data which is lightly formatted.  (If
          I were doing it, I'd do this & send the patch to lynx-dev &
          autoconf maintainers ;-).

        + the configure script takes a host parameter which amounts to the
          same value (but I've rarely used it myself -- some people seem to
          think it works).  It has to be one of the ones known by config.sub

        + hack the configure script itself where it calls config.guess (though
          on the whole this is not as much fun).
  
So - does this one have a uname, if so, what does "uname -a" show?

> config.cache is empty 
> config.log contains: 
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while 
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. 
>  
> configure:624: checking host system type 
>  
> There is no config.status file. 
>  
> Can you tell I've read the INSTALLATION file? 


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