configure fails on Mac OS X 10.4

[Rich Cook]

Thanks to Charles Bailey and OpenMacNews for their kind and helpful  
words of wisdom.

And as for websrvr,
What is your problem?  I merely asked a question.  You might want to  
check yourself with respect to admonishments of etiquette.  Are you  
having a bad day?  Did your dog die?  Sheesh.  I have tried to be  
kind and ignore you, but I now must say that you have thus far posted  
the most pompous, self-righteous and useless gusts of babble I've  
ever had directed at me on a mailing list, and I've been on many  
mailing lists over the years.   And all this without answering a  
single question!  Wow!
Fortunately for me, I do not need your help, as other kind souls have  
by now chipped in and given me the information I needed.  Otherwise,  
I guess I'd spend all day arguing with you about the proper way to  
ask my question, and I'd never get anywhere.


On May 22, 2005, at 5:05 PM, websrvr wrote:

>
> On May 22, 2005, at 06:24 PM, Rich Cook wrote:
>
>
>> OK, so we've established that I'm using a non-standard prompt.  My  
>> apologies.   I'm just looking for some help.  Does anybody have  
>> any ideas how I can overcome this build problem?
>>
>
> I Offered assistance but asked a question which required a response  
> to better assist you which you ignored.
>
> This message that I am responding to is what is commonly refereed  
> to as top posting, in a public forum this is considered bad etiquette.
>
>
>> On May 22, 2005, at 2:25 PM, websrvr wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On May 22, 2005, at 04:28 PM, Rich Cook wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Your prompt is non-standard so I wasn't about to assume anything.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On May 22, 2005, at 11:45 AM, websrvr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On May 22, 2005, at 02:02 PM, Rich Cook wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I'm sorry if this is in a doc somewhere, I would think this  
>>>>>> has been asked, but cannot see any posts on this subject in  
>>>>>> the list (the info-cyrus archive search engine is slow, as  
>>>>>> well, so I couldn't do a good number of searches).
>>>>>> Anyhoo,
>>>>>> I tried to run configure on OS X tiger and got the following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> What are you trying to build?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Found this in the config.log:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ## ----------- ##
>>>>>> ## Core tests. ##
>>>>>> ## ----------- ##
>>>>>>
>>>>>> configure:1347: checking build system type
>>>>>> configure:1356: error: cannot guess build type; you must  
>>>>>> specify one
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With some builds, I can sort of guess my way into something  
>>>>>> that works, but Cyrus seems to be a bit abstruse to my  
>>>>>> eyes. :-) Help?
>>>>>> Thanks in advance...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> You provide little information to determine what software your  
>>>>> problem is with so how can help or a solution be offered?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Rich "wealthychef" Cook
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> -- Dale
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Rich "wealthychef" Cook
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Let's first get some basics out of the way so we can determine if  
>>> you are wasting your time.
>>>
>>> Why are you building CyrusIMAP ?
>>>
>>> -- Dale
>>>
>>>
>> -- 
>> Richard Cook
>>
>
> -- Dale
>

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Rich "wealthychef" Cook
<http://www.richcook.net/honk/>
925-784-3077
--
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in  
overalls and looks like work."  -- C.F. Edison


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