Re: [gtk-list] Re: configure.guess fails after kernel2.2.5 upgrade.

["Robin P. Reagan" <krreagan sprynet com>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> "Robin P. Reagan" <krreagan@sprynet.com> writes:
> 
> > I have a RH5.2 i586 system that I just updated the kernel to 2.2.6 (from
> > 2.0.36) after upgrading to gcc 2.8.1. I went to rebuild my glib-1.2.2
> > and the configure fails to guess the host type? I tried looking through
> > config.guess to no avail (It does not return anything).
> > I looked at my last build of gtk-1.2.1 (I had "clean"ed my glib tree)
> > and found that it was using "i586-pc-linux-gnu". Is this the correct
> > host string? and why did upgrading the kernel break the config.guess?
> 
> Actually, I don't think it is a hostname problem or a kernel
> problem. (I run GTK+ fine on several different 2.2.5 systems).
> 
> Rather, the problem is, I think, that you don't have a functional
> '/usr/bin/cc' - and the config.guess script tries to use that
> to compile a test program.
> 
> Somethign like:
> 
>  ln -s /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc
> 
> I think will help. (Or alternatively, just "export CC=gcc" if
> you don't want to modify the system)
> 
> Regards,
>                                         Owen

I don' think I hve ever had a /usr/bin/cc. unless upgrading to gcc2.8.1
got rid of it. It worked now... Should there be a sym link from cc to
gcc?
thanks.
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