Re: Why does 'configure' look for localhost-g++ ???

[Warren Young]

Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> > So don't use --host at all.  
>
> It was suggested to me by Robert Collins, that's why I did it. 

In his comment above, he told you to read the docs so you would realize 
that --host is not used for telling it the hostname of the machine you 
wish to compile the program on.

> So why does it now work? 

Nevermind why it accidentally works when building on other machines. 
Drop the --host and it should continue working on them, and also on 
localhost.