Emacs on AMD64

[Waldek Hebisch]

I have tried to build emacs-21.4 from the sources on an AMD64 machine
running GNU/Linux (Mandrake 9.2). I tried to configure it using
separate build directory, but configure failed:

$ ../emacs-21.4/configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to `x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' 
systems.
Check `etc/MACHINES' for recognized configuration names.

Is the message true?  Mandrake 9.2 contains emacs-21.3 (I wanted to 
upgrade). Also the the GNU emacs home page:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html

says:

Supported Platforms

   Emacs 21 runs on these operating systems regardless of the machine
   type:
     * AIX 4.3.3 and higher
     * FreeBSD
     * GNU/Linux


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                              Waldek Hebisch
hebisch@math.uni.wroc.pl