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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>]

Hi All,

Did anyone come across the problem below, "machine `\' not recognized" 
on configure?

This happens in lirc with regenerated configure and config.sub scripts. 
The config.sub in original package (both 0.7.x and 0.8.0) fails too with 
the same error, but the ./configure command doesn't stop on it. As a 
result, libirc_client on x86_64 is compiled without PIC and compilation 
of anything linking to libirc_client fails (e.g. pylirc).

I just wanted to ask around before digging deeper.
Thanks for any pointers,

Sergey.

configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
configure: WARNING: invalid host type: \
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for \-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
checking for \-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... yes
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for mknod... /bin/mknod
checking for mkfifo... /bin/mkfifo
checking for depmod... /sbin/depmod
checking for libusb-config... /usr/bin/libusb-config
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... Invalid configuration `\': machine `\' not 
recognized
configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub \ failed