From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Wed Jan 20 20:00:00 1999
Subject: host unknown
From: Huaiyu Zhu <hzhu at uidaho dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:59:49 -0800 (PST)


While installing octave on a machine with Celeron cpu, ./configure aborts
with "Host name unknown, you must specify one".

uname -a => i686
$HOSTTYPE => i386

Is this the problem?

I've installed the same octave-2.0.13 on other machines, same Linux
distribution (RH5.2) without problem.  In those cases
uname -a => i586
$HOSTTYPE => i386

Are there real differences for octave to run on these machines or are they
just convenient name tags?  Where should I specify?  It's not in INSTALL.

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