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> -On [20030218 22:45], Andrew Cagney (ac131313@redhat.com) wrote:
> 
>>You can do:
>>
>>$ sh GDB/src/config.guess
>>i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> 
> Funny:
> 
> bentss@benremedy04 (/usr/users/bentss/asmodai/src-test) # ls -asl config*
>  41 -rwxr-xr-x   1 bentss   bentss     41025 Feb 19 09:42 config.guess
> 136 -rwxr-xr-x   1 bentss   bentss    136859 Feb 19 09:42 configure
> 
> bentss@benremedy04 (/usr/users/bentss/asmodai/src-test) # ./configure --prefix=/usr/users/bentss/asmodai --disable-nls
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one
> 
> bentss@benremedy04 (/usr/users/bentss/asmodai/src-test) # ./config.guess
> alphaev67-dec-osf5.1

Well, there goes that theory :-(

> autoconf issue perhaps then?

Yes, or SH bug.

Using current sources, can you isolate this down to a single 
subdirectory and then use `sh -x' on it?

Hmm, can you also try configuring in a separate directory vis:

cd /tmp
/path/to/configure ....

it might be that.

Andrew