configure: error: cannot guess host type

[Troy Goodson]

I'm running Mac OS X 10.0.3
localhost% uname -a
Darwin localhost 1.3.3 Darwin Kernel Version 1.3.3: Fri May  4 
13:46:54 PDT 2001; root:xnu/xnu-124.8.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc

./configure gave me this error:
checking host system type... configure: error: cannot guess host 
type; you must specify one

So, I did a "cp /usr/libexec/config* ."  which fixed this problem 
when I was trying to install rtf2latex2e. (copies these files: 
/usr/libexec/config.guess, /usr/libexec/config.sub)

Shouldn't that have worked?

But I still get the same error.  And, honestly, I don't know how to 
specify a host type to ./configure.