Re: Configure won't recognize my host system

[josh at ssimr dot com]

On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:32:50PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 28, 2001, josh@ssimr.com wrote:
> 
> > Some other configure scripts come up with "powerpc-apple-netbsdelf1.5"
> > or "macppc-netbsd1.5" and proceeded happily.
> 
> Try to specify one of these as an argument to configure.  If GCC is
> set up to accept any of them, this should be enough.  Otherwise, you
> may need a newer version of GCC to supports this platform.

I expected that this would fail at the beginning or work
successfully. My expectations were not met. I got a little further and
then it failed. So, while I include what happened below, my question
is now, what do you mean by newer version. Do I need to install a
newer version than I have, but not necessarily the current version, of
GCC. Or am I waiting for a newer version than the one I downloaded and
tried to install.  Or is there a way to give the configure script
enough information to indentify the machine and support it.

The GCC distribution's configure visits configure in
various sub directories and configures programs. When I specified
nothing the config.guess program came up with the
"macppc-unknown-netbsd1.5" which was instantly unuseable.
When I tried

./configure powerpc-apple-netbsdelf1.5 
( I also tried ./configure powerpc-apple-netbsd1.5 with the same result)
 
It would procede through

Configuring libiberty...
Configuring texinfo...

and get to 

Configuring gcc...

where it would die after successfully running most of the compiler tests

checking whether strsignal must be declared... no
checking whether putc_unlocked must be declared... no
checking whether fputs_unlocked must be declared... yes
checking whether strstr must be declared... no
checking whether getrlimit must be declared... no
checking whether setrlimit must be declared... no
checking for sys_siglist declaration in signal.h or unistd.h... yes
checking if mkdir takes one argument... no
Configuration powerpc-apple-netbsdelf1.5 not supported
Configure in /home/josh/gcc-2.95/gcc failed, exiting.
bash-2.05$ 

After that I just cd'ed into the /home/josh/gcc-2.95/gcc directory and
tried to run confiugre from there with the same result. I just wanted
to make sure the the host type was being passed.

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Josh Kuperman
josh@ssimr.com
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