configure fails on Mac OS X 10.4

Charles Bailey bailey.charles at gmail.com
Sun May 22 22:31:33 EDT 2005


On 5/22/05, Rich Cook <wealthychef at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> rcook at Richs-G5 (cyrus-imapd-2.2.12): uname -a
> Darwin Richs-G5.local 8.1.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0: Tue May 10 18:16:08
> PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.1.5.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc
> rcook at Richs-G5 (cyrus-imapd-2.2.12): configure
> checking build system type... configure: error: cannot guess build type; you
> must specify one


I has the same problem on 10.3.9, fixed by the patch below.  My guess
is that the version of autoconf used to roll the distribution didn't
know much about OSX, since it handles 'rhapsody' but not 'darwin'.

-- 
Regards,
Charles Bailey
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--- config.guess.~1.1.~ Tue Apr 25 00:42:12 2000
+++ config.guess        Sun Mar  6 13:43:23 2005
@@ -974,6 +974,9 @@
     *:Rhapsody:*:*)
        echo ${UNAME_MACHINE}-apple-rhapsody${UNAME_RELEASE}
        exit 0 ;;
+    *:Darwin:*:*)
+       echo powerpc-apple-darwin${UNAME_RELEASE}
+       exit 0 ;;
     *:QNX:*:4*)
        echo i386-qnx-qnx${UNAME_VERSION}
        exit 0 ;;
--- config.sub.~1.1.~   Tue Apr 25 00:42:12 2000
+++ config.sub  Sun Mar  6 13:46:35 2005
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@
              | -udi* | -eabi* | -lites* | -ieee* | -go32* | -aux* \
              | -cygwin* | -pe* | -psos* | -moss* | -proelf* | -rtems* \
              | -mingw32* | -linux-gnu* | -uxpv* | -beos* | -mpeix* | -udk* \
-             | -interix* | -uwin* | -rhapsody* | -opened* |
-openstep* | -oskit*)
+             | -interix* | -uwin* | -rhapsody* | -darwin* | -opened*
| -openstep*$        # Remember, each alternative MUST END IN *, to
match a version number.
                ;;
        -sim | -es1800* | -hms* | -xray | -os68k* | -none* | -v88r* \


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