building Cyrus-imap on Intel OS X

[Joe Auty]

Hello,

I'm receiving the following error message from building the  
DarwinPort of Cyrus on my Intel-based Mac:

--->  Configuring cyrus-imapd
checking build system type... configure: error: cannot guess build  
type; you must specify one
Error: Target com.apple.configure returned: configure failure: shell  
command "cd "/opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate_dp 
orts_mail_cyrus-imapd/work/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12" && ./configure -- 
prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --sysconfdir=/opt/ 
local/etc/cyrus --with-cyrus-prefix=/opt/local --with-pidfile=/opt/ 
local/var/run/cyrus-master.pid --with-bdb-incdir=/opt/local/include/ 
db4 --with-bdb-libdir=/opt/local/lib --with-perl=/opt/local/bin/perl  
--with-sasl=/opt/local --with-openssl=/opt/local --with-cyrus- 
user=cyrus --with-cyrus-group=mail --with-auth=unix --enable-listext  
--enable-cmulocal --enable-netscapehack" returned error 1
Command output: checking build system type... configure: error:  
cannot guess build type; you must specify one

Warning: the following items did not execute (for cyrus-imapd):  
com.apple.activate com.apple.configure com.apple.build  
com.apple.destroot com.apple.archive com.apple.install
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: Status 1 encountered during processing.


From:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Porting/Conceptual/ 
PortingUnix/compiling/chapter_4_section_3.html


> Some earlier versions of autoconf handle cross-compiling poorly. If  
> your tool contains a configure script generated by an early  
> autoconf, you may be able to significantly improve things by  
> replacing some of the config.* files (and config.guess in  
> particular) with updated copies from the version of autoconf that  
> comes with Mac OS X.


Does this apply here? Would updating the config.guess remedy this issue?


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Joe Auty
UITS Messaging
Indiana University
jauty at indiana.edu




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