Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 07:35:17 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit @ cygwin" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <8332998779.20031208073517@familiehaase.de> To: linda w CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: configure error message In-Reply-To: <3FD25517.6030700@tlinx.org> References: <3FD25517.6030700@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo linda, Am Samstag, 6. Dezember 2003 um 23:15 schriebst du: > I'm guessing I don't have something setup quite correctly. I'm trying > to build the dictd package under cygwin. There are problems with fork() in this code, I was not able to run dictd as a daemon. > it uses configure, but configure starts out with an error. > checking host system type... > Invalid configuration `i686-pc-cygwin': system `cygwin' not recognized > --- > Is this something I should fix before attempting to debug later > problems? Try to update the autotools used in the package (config.sub, config.guess, ...). > Seems, looking at files like 'config.sub', that it knows about > i[345]86, but not 686's.... > Strange. I've never written anything using config/autoconf, only > compiled things...never seen this type of error before. Maybe `autoreconf --install --force --verbose' works? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/