Host for Configure

Eric Christopher echristo@cygnus.com
Mon Oct 9 14:16:00 GMT 2000


"W. C. Fan" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install gcc-2.95.2 on an laptop with a PII processor.
> 
> I ran the configure program and it kept asking the "host" option which
> should be determined by the config.guess program.
> 
> The command "uname -a" produce the following:
> 
> Linux galatea 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
> 
> Is there any problems with the config.guess program or I did something
> wrong ?
> 

What does the output of config.guess do?  Note that config.guess
requires a compiler to be installed on the system so you'll need that
(you'll need it to compile gcc anyhow).

-eric


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