Re: [Bino-list] Compilation for dummies

[Martin Lambers]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:31:44 +0100, Tim Sampson wrote:
> Despite Pedro helping me out, I decided to have one more go. I don't 
> know what I did differently but I managed to compile MXE OK (except
> for nsis).
> 
> Building bino gave me this error though:
> 
> ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --build='build-aux/config.guess'
> checking build system type... Invalid configuration 
> `build-aux/config.guess': machine `build' not recognized
> configure: error: /bin/bash build-aux/config.sub
> build-aux/config.guess failed

Short fix:

You need backticks (`) for the --build option: --build=`...`.

Explanation:

The --host option tells the configure script which platform you are
building *for*. The --build option tells your configure script which
platform you are building *on*.

What the backticks do is to replace everything inside `...` with the
output of the command build-aux/config.guess. This command guesses your
platform.

You can omit the --build option, in which case the configure script
will just guess your platform (by calling build-aux/config.guess
itself). This usually works, but sometimes gives a warning.

Martin