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--target / --host /--build
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- Subject: --target / --host /--build
- From: Robert Johannes <rjohanne at rjohanne-host dot dsl dot visi dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 07:05:34 -0600 (EST)
- Reply-To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
Hi,
I'm curious why I'm having the following situation;
On two identical machines, I've tried compiling glibc. The only
difference between them is that I replaced machine A's redhat 5.2 gcc
2.7.3 with gcc-2.95.2; thus machine A's /usr/bin/gcc is gcc-2.95.2. On
machine B, I did not replace standard redhat distribution gcc-2.7.3; but
I've gcc-2.95.2 installed in /usr/local, and that's what I use by default.
So when I ran configure, on machine A, the configure failed saying that
config.guess could not determine my host/build/target type, while on
machine B, same glibc, same gcc version, the host, build and target types
were reported as i586-pc-linux-gnu.
Question is, why the difference in behaviour of configure? Why is one
able to find the host/build/target type, and the other isn't? And how can
I fix this, because now I've to specify host/build/target types on machine
A for any gnu or gnu-similar package I compile on it?
Thanks for ya help.
Robert