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