On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 09:51:27PM +0200, Frederick Page wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> got the latest from www.mutt.org and was trying to compile it, but as
> in pre1, the same error persists:
>
> /usr/src/mutt-1.0pre2-us# /usr/src/mutt-1.0pre2-us/configure
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for working aclocal... found
> checking for working autoconf... found
> checking for working automake... found
> checking for working autoheader... found
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
> checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host
> type; you must specify one
> /usr/src/mutt-1.0pre2-us#
>
> I have a standard Pentium 90, Debian Linux 2.1 (slink), the "old"
> mutt-0.95.4 compiled fine at the time, but now also gives the same
> error. Am I doing something wrong here?
Hmm.. I don't think it's something that you're doing wrong, but that
configure can't find the host type from the places that it should find it
(correct me if I'm wrong here, everyone. :) )
I had the same problem, when someone at the ISP I helped to create,
had changed permissions on gcc, to only be accessible by root. So, I grabbed
my own binary for gcc, and added --host as an option to configure. When it
asked for the host, I grabbed that from the directory in /usr/lib/gcc-lib
(slackware box). Once I had that ( --host=machinetype ) configure went through
the normal routine, and mutt compiled.
You may want to give that a try (YMMV).
BL.
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