configure fails on Mac OS X 10.4

Rich Cook wealthychef at yahoo.com
Sun May 22 18:24:29 EDT 2005


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?

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
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