RE: config cant guess Windows 7, with latest cygwin on a 64 bit machine.

[Patrick Moran]

Oops yes sorry about that. Does "make" normally find and override config.guess? 
I've never had this problem before. This is the first time I've installed 
Cygwin on a 64 bit windows. 

Pat

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 5:36 PM
To: Patrick Moran
Cc: config-patches
Subject: Re: config cant guess Windows 7, with latest cygwin on a 64 bit 
machine.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Patrick Moran <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trying to build speech_tools
>
> Following the attached INSTALL.txt document.
>
> Source code is available here: http://festvox.org/festival/
>
>
>
> ---- cut here -----
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>
>
> address@hidden /cygdrive/c/festival/speech_tools
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> $ make VCMakefile
>
> ***
>
> *** Making default config file ***
>
> ***
>
> checking build system type... ./config.guess: unable to guess system 
> type
>
>
>
> This script, last modified 2002-01-30, has failed to recognize
>
> the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
>
> download the most up to date version of the config scripts from
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>
>
>     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/
>

Did you download the most current and replace the config.guess and config.sub 
in the package?  2002 is 11 years plus old; did Windows 7 exist?

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