Compiling using the 'autoconf' configure script

Apr 13, '01 10:08:12PM

Contributed by: jlamoree

When running the autoconf configure script, it will likely fail to identify the host type using its config.guess info. The error message it will produce is the following:

configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one
To get past this error, run the script with the host argument:
./configure -host powerpc-apple-bsd
This should allow the configuration script to complete, and when cc (the one that Apple ships, based on gcc) runs, it should compile.

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