insight/271: Problems during Configure phase of build

[freddie at sb dot net]

>Number:         271
>Category:       insight
>Synopsis:       Problems during Configure phase of build
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 01 00:53:00 UTC 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Fred Edwards
>Release:        insight-weekly-6.30.50.20050822.tar
>Organization:
>Environment:
Mac OS X 10.4.2 Tiger
>Description:
When the ./configure command is issued with the following command:
"./configure --prefix=$/usr/local/bin --target=avr --disable-nls"  I receive an error:
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0
checking target system type... avr-unknown-none
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln works... (cached) yes
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gnatbind... no
checking whether compiler driver understands Ada... (cached) no
........

The config process does not understand the target type =avr.  Is there some docs somewhere to explain what are the exact requirements for this field.
All the other avr tools compile and link just fine, including avr-gdb.  I have been using the other tools under Xcode for about 3 months without any problems.  When I compare the avr code file to the code file generated by the Winavr package running under Win98 the code files are exactly the same.
>How-To-Repeat:
Configure repeats error consistenly.
>Fix:
Don't know
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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