[vile] How to build vile in a 'Jail shell' where uname isn't available?

[Chris Green]

I'm trying to build vile for a hosting account where I have ssh access
but only to a limited 'Jail shell'.  The specific problem is that
uname isn't available so config.guess fails.

What needs to be set so that configure won't need config.guess?

... or are there other ways around this?

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Chris Green