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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Kmail & 'configure' problem on install
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-06-05 15:59:54
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Franz Sirl wrote:
> 
> At 16:25 05.06.00, you wrote:
> >dep wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Stefan Taferner wrote:
> > >
> > > | ../configure
> > > |
> > > | which executed and issued the following messages:
> > > |
> > > | loading cache ./config.cache
> > > | checking host system type...
> > > | configure: error: can not guess host type.
> > > | you must specify one.
> > > |
> > > | Unfortunately I have no idea of either what 'host type'
> > > | I should specify nor where to specify it!
> > >
> > > if memory serves, for a modern linux system this would be
> > > ./configure --host=i586-pc-linux-gnu
> > >
> > > and for an older system, 386 instead of 586; i believe this is a
> > > glibc/libc5 distinction, but would not swear to it.
> > >
> >No, there exist linux-gnu , linux-gnulibc1, linux-gnuaout,
> >linux-gnuoldld
> >and linux-gnucoff to differentiate(sp?) old linuxes.
> >As you see autoconf is maintained by the FSF ;)
> 
> config.guess and config.sub are separate from autoconf now at (cvs login
> with empty password first)
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/home/cvs co config
> 
> IMHO the config.guess/config.sub in KDE should be updated from there before
> KDE2.
> 
I always take the latest from libtool. Going faster than libtool is of
no
use to us anyway

Greetings, Stephan

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