Thread: Can not guess your host type

Can not guess your host type

From
Bradley Kieser
Date:
Hi all,

I am trying to install PG 7 but have hit a stupid hurdle. I am running linux on
Intel, but I kepp
getting this error message spewed out:

[root@laptop1 src]# ./configure --with-tcl --with-perl --with-odbc
--host="linux"
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... Invalid configuration `linux': machine `linux' not
recognized


*************************************************************
configure does not currently recognize your operating system,
therefore you must do a manual configuration of:

Please contact scrappy@hub.org to see about rectifying this,
including the above 'checking host system type...' line
*************************************************************

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If anyone can help me get over this hurdle, would be appreciated!
Thanks,


Brad



Re: Can not guess your host type

From
Patrick Welche
Date:
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 05:00:39PM +0100, Bradley Kieser wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to install PG 7 but have hit a stupid hurdle. I am running linux on
> Intel, but I kepp
> getting this error message spewed out:
>
> [root@laptop1 src]# ./configure --with-tcl --with-perl --with-odbc
> --host="linux"
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... Invalid configuration `linux': machine `linux' not
> recognized

You could try without the --host bit - I'm assuming you are compiling on the
host you want it to run on..

./configure --with-tcl --with-perl --with-odbc

Cheers,

Patrick