configure fails on Mac OS X 10.4

[websrvr]

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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