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

[Eric Greisen]

Deborah Haarsma writes:
Going through my older inbox:

 > 
 > 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::

This is due to a very old version of READLINE that we used to ship.
31DEC05 has a much more recent version which would guess your host
type accurately.  However, it is usually best to point readline to
/usr/lib/libreadline.a or one of its "clones" - install.pl is smarter
about that now too.  When you try this over again, get a new tar ball
and things should work better.

(It was going over my older Inbox where I noticed that this readline
error kept coming up - so we fixed it.)

Eric Greisen