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Re: [Fwd: configure issues: can not guess host type]
- To: Velma Dinkley <mathpup at onramp dot net>
- Subject: Re: [Fwd: configure issues: can not guess host type]
- From: Bruce Korb <bkorb at sco dot COM>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:55:25 -0800
- CC: autoconf at gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Santa Cruz Operation
- References: <3875E059.36E441E0@onramp.net>
Velma Dinkley wrote:
> [[...]] I determined that the problem was that
> config.guess tried to compile a C program using cc as part of
> determining the host type. The problem was that cc didn't
> exist on my system any longer.
That is exactly your problem.
There is a way around it in config.guess
and I have proposed the patch several times.
"ld" is also used, but the switch on emulation type
handles most every Linux flavor *except* ELF-en
i*86 architecture. :-(
> Apparently, when egcs was uninstalled, that took cc
> with it. Making a symbolic link from cc to gcc makes the
> configure scripts work correctly.
I did similar things (deleted my compiler and fixed it
by appropriate links).
> This is probably not a bug,
Just a major failing in `config.guess'
A distinction without a difference?