Thread: Request for INSTALL help

Request for INSTALL help

From
John Pilley
Date:
Hello,

I could not get the RPM to work so I got the source and am trying to
install it manually. When I ./configure I get the message "can not guess
host type". What is wrong here? I'm on a fresh Mandrake (2.2.13-7mdk).

Thanks,

John

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Re: Request for INSTALL help

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
John Pilley writes:

> I could not get the RPM to work so I got the source and am trying to
> install it manually. When I ./configure I get the message "can not guess
> host type". What is wrong here? I'm on a fresh Mandrake (2.2.13-7mdk).

Make sure you have a linker installed (binutils package).  If that doesn't
help, specify a system type manually, using --host=i386-pc-linux and
complain loudly to config-patches@gnu.org.  Actually, they talked about
fixing this just yesterday, so maybe they could use some data points.

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