[daip] installation problem "can not guess host type"

[Wes Young]

It's likely the old version of readline distributed with AIPS doesn't  
recognize your newer machine.  What kind of machine/OS are you  
installing on?

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu

On Oct 28, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Deborah Haarsma wrote:

> AIPS experts,
>
> I've installed aips many times, including several times in Linux, and
> not encountered this error.  Near the beginning of install.pl it says
>
> AipsWiz:  =====> Configuring READLINE library...
> AipsWiz: Unpacking the READLINE.SHR archive...
> AipsWiz: Unpacking seemed to work.
> AipsWiz: Unpacking the RLSUPP.SHR archive...
> AipsWiz: Unpacking seemed to work.
> AipsWiz: Running Readline 'configure' in quiet mode, and then make...
> creating cache ./config.cache
> configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> AipsWiz: Error: Either the configure or make step failed in
> AipsWiz: Error: /home/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/GNU/.
> AipsWiz: Error: This means INSTEP3/INSTEP4 will not work.
> AipsWiz: ==> Press <ENTER> to acknowledge::
>
> HOSTS.LIST has a line for LOCALHOST, with architecture LINUX.
> Why can't it figure out the host type?
>
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