building bash 2.04-4-src.tar.gz

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Sat Dec 16 09:26:00 GMT 2000


--- Chris Abbey <cabbey@bresnanlink.net> wrote:
> At 11:51 12/13/00 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >I haven't used any special configure flag and it compiles fine on
> >my box. Don't know what's going on.
> >
> >The settings on configure:
> >../src/configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr \
> >                  --bindir=/bin --sysconfdir=/etc \
> >                  --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --host=i686-pc-cygwin \
> >                  --build=i686-pc-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin
> 
> hmm... I may have found it then:
> 
> /tmp/bld $ ../bash-2.04/configure --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr \
>  >                  --bindir=/bin --sysconfdir=/etc \
>  >                  --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --host=i686-pc-cygwin \
>  >                  --build=i686-pc-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... Invalid configuration `i686-pc-cygwin': system 
> `cygwin' not recognized
> 
> Beginning configuration for bash-2.04 for --
> 

It sounds as if you need to `wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/config.* '
and replace config.guess and config.sub in the bash-2.04 source distribution.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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