On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 08:38:23AM +0200, Timo Sintonen wrote: [...] > To make an executable we need headers, a working compiler, working > binutils and working libraries for the target system. Even if the > target system is the same ( I assume you are not making a > cross-compiler) configure may give a different target name. In my > Slackware the default configuration is x86_64-slackware-linux but > the guessed configuration is x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu. Configure > will not find all stuff for the guessed target and fails.
You're right, I get x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu too. How to fix this? (I assume it needs fixing, as I'm on a Debian system so it shouldn't be unknown?) > You have to look config.log at the directory make was when the error > came. In somewhere near the beginning of the file there is something > like "checking if gcc can produce executables" and you should look > there what went wrong. > In my opinion configure should report an error and stop here, but I > am not expert of that script either. Thanks for the tip, I'll try it again and look for the real source of the error. T -- Caffeine underflow. Brain dumped.
