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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

Only time I hve seen something like that frome the configure script was
when a option was expecting additional information thah was not
supplied.

CuZnDragon
Robin Cook

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 00:06 -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> 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
> 
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