Re: [vile] How to build if uname not available?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:50:44PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 07:25:16AM -0400, Daniel Ellard wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Chris G <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to build vile on a system where uname isnn't available, it's
> > > on a Centos release 5.2 system.
> > >
> > > ./configure says:-
> > >    configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
> > >
> > > So how do I specify what configure needs?  Looking at --help it seems
> > > that I need to set --build=<something>, but what's the something?
> > 
> > I can't reproduce your problem, since I don't have Centos, and I don't
> > know which version you're trying to build, but from the config on a
> > recent version it looks like
> > 
> >   --build=MACHTYPE-OSTYPE
> > 
> > (for example, --build=i386-linux)
> > 
> > could do the trick.
> > 
> > The fact that you don't have uname, however, is a bit weird.  The
> > versions of CentOS that I've used do have uname (and a quick google
> > suggests that 5.2 is supposed to have uname), and a surprising number
> > of things depend on access to uname so this might be a symptom of a
> > deeper problem.
> > 
> It's a 'jail shell' so most things work OK and there is a C compiler
> etc. it's just that there are some things disabled.
> 
> Is there any chance of finding a ready built vile for Centos release 5.2?
> The executables on the system report as:-
>     ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 
> 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped
> 
As it turns out this rpm:-

    http://ftp.crc.dk/fedora-epel/5/i386//vile-9.8e-1.el5.i386.rpm

Worked perfectly on the system in question so all I had to do was
extract the executable from the rpm and put it on the system.  Thus no
need to go through the pain of building it.  :-)

-- 
Chris Green