> If I recall, it is the type of system, linux, bsd, x86, etc. Stuff like
> that. I think I encountered a problem like that when trying to compile
> Sendmail. For that there was a paramter where you could specify the host
> type in one of the config files. I think the problem derives from some sort
> of package that I didn't have installed, because I reinstalled the OS and
> tried again and it picked it up fine.
>
For the purposes of configure, it is likely to be something like:
i686-pc-linux-gnu
(supposed to be cpu-vendor-os, apparently -this is from a RedHat
6.2 RPM version of 7.0)
This is handled by the config.guess script; you could try looking in
there and picking something that matches BUT if config.guess can't
tell your system type then maybe you have some inconsistency in the
configuration...
I'm not an expert on autoconf host strings, though
Regards
John
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