Host type?

[Kevin Buettner]

On Mar 2, 11:47am, Robert N. Eaton wrote:

> To help myself out with my last problem (accessing sspecial characters)
> I am now trying to install Vile-9.2.  My machine is barfing early in
> ./configure, where it says, in part:
> 
> 	UNAME_VERSION=#1 SMP Feb 17 11 : 49 : 42  MST2000
> 	Configure: error : can not guess host type; you must specify one
> 
> In the config.log I have the message:
> 
> 	configure: 607: checking host system type
> 
> In the configure file I find:
> 
> 	Host type:
> 	  --build=BUILD		configure for building in BUILD [BUILD=HOST]
> 	  --host=HOST		configure for HOST [guessed]
> 	  --target=TARGET	configure for TARGET [TARGET=HOST]
> 
> What is the difference, and how would I go about setting host type?

What kind of machine are you building on?

vile should be able to reliably guess the type of machine without
any assistance.  The only exception is if you have some oddball
machine that it doesn't know about yet.  (E.g, when I built it
on my AIX5/IA-64 box, I had to update config.guess to know about
this machine.)  On Linux, regardless of the variety, it should build
with no problems whatsoever (even on my ARM, PPC, and IA-64 boxes).

To build vile, I do

    ./configure --with-perl
    make
    <become root>
    make install

To build xvile, I do

    ./configure --with-screen=x11 --with-perl
    make
    <become root>
    make install

The first time around, you might want to leave out the ``--with-perl'' bit.

If this doesn't help, send me the output of "uname -a", your config.log
file, and the messages produced when running configure.

Also, you'll find a lot more help by writing to either
vile-users@foxharp.boston.ma.us and vile-code@foxharp.boston.ma.us.
The maintainer and contributors (myself included) are quite friendly
and ready to help...

Kevin