From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 21 14:00:27 1999
Subject: Re: host unknown
From: Huaiyu Zhu <hzhu at uidaho dot edu>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:59:55 -0800 (PST)


Here it is:

[root at localhost octave-2.0.13]# ./configure 
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type;
you must specify one

Sorry I did not enclose the exact words because I could not get access
to that machine when I wrote yesterday evening.

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University of Idaho             Email: hzhu at uidaho dot edu
Moscow, ID 83844

On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 20-Jan-1999, Huaiyu Zhu <hzhu at uidaho dot edu> wrote:
> 
> | 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.
> 
> What is the real error message?  I don't see the string you quote
> anywhere in Octave's config files.
> 
> As far as I can tell, the HOSTTYPE environment variable does not
> matter at all.
> 
> I build Octave on an i686 system all the time, so I don't think that
> should be a problem.
> 
> What is the complete output of uname -a on your system?
> 
> BTW, please report bugs to bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu dot 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jwe
>