Re: Error when running configure script from grub-0.91.tar.gz

[Alex Thiel]

On Sunday 28 April 2002 21:29, Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am getting the following error when trying to . configure grub to be
> compiled on my RedHat 6.0 system, kernel 2.5.5-15:
>
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking build system type... i?86-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i?86-pc-linux-gnu
> Invalid processor type
>
> I have a P4 with 512meg RAM. I can compile other programs using "configure"
> - any ideas why GRUB's configure script does this...?
>

This seems to be due to an outdated version of config.guess used by 
configure. Try setting the host system manually using 

        ./configure --host=i386-pc-linux-gnu
Cheers,

        Alex