Simon Marlow wrote:
when installing ghc and hugs under SuSE linux 8.1 I got
"configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one"
It worked after I added "--host=i386-linux"
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What does config.guess return on your system?
i686-pc-linux-gnu
That's strange, configure is supposed to emit the error only if config.guess fails. The relevant bit of the configure script is: case "$host_alias" in NONE) case $nonopt in NONE) if host_alias=`${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh} $ac_config_guess`; then : else { echo "configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one" 1>&2; exit 1; } fi ;; *) host_alias=$nonopt ;; esac ;; esac Could you try adding echos in various places to determine what has gone wrong? It might be something specific to whatever /bin/sh is on your system, I suppose. Cheers, Simon