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Re: Some problems with automake/autoconf



On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 01:50:29PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am having a problem with one of my packages failing on s390.  It
> builds fine on other architectures (except where I messed up with a bad
> build-depends on a build-essential).  The problem with s390 is here:
> 
> # Add here commands to configure the package.
> ./configure --host=s390-linux --build=s390-linux \ 
>          --prefix=/usr --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --exec-prefix=/usr\
>  
> checking host system type... Invalid configuration `s390-linux': machine `s390' not recognized
> 

Why do you have to specify host like that?  The whole point of using
configure is so you don't have to do that, configure determines it
automatically, not so?

Drew

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