Sid, Bob, On Wednesday 24 November 2004 01:28, Sid Boyce wrote:
B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE folk,
Trying to ./configure a file after untarring it. New install of 9.2 Think I have installed all of the necessary packages. Folowing is message I receive.
EasyStreet:/opt/ace-1.2 # ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... missing checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one EasyStreet:/opt/ace-1.2 #
Searched for a makeinfo in Yast. Not found. Cannot guess host type ???
Anybody can help me here?
Bob S.
The package you need installed is texinfo.
I'm not sure, but I think the auto-configuration dealt with the lack of the "info" tools but whatever means it used to ascertain the host system type failed. Bob, invoke "configure --help" and it will give you invocation help (probably quite a lot of it) and that should include an option to force the system type. I'm not entirely sure what values it wants (it may give the alternatives it accepts) but it could be simply "linux". On the other hand, the fact that the configure could not ascertain the kind of system you have is not a good sign and you may encounter further problems once you surmount this one.
Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce
Randall Schulz