Host type?

[Robert N. Eaton]

Kevin,
 
My machine is a relatively standard PII 233 MHz 64 megs RAM,  Win95 on
hda1 and Caldera Open Linux 2.4 on hdb1 (despite the affix 2.4, it has
the 2.2 kernel). In addition, all this seems to be recognized.  I'll try
./configure --with-perl.

Bob Eaton

Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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