Andrew(dot)Mason(at)spektra(dot)co(dot)uk writes:
> I am installing on Mandrake Linux 7.0 and when I run configure I get :
> 'can not guess host type'
Your compiler installation is messed up.
> It wants me to specify the host - is this the IP address or something
> else?
It's the type of the host system, e.g., i586-pc-linux. To proceed anyway,
use --host=<value> with configure. But you probably won't get far without
a compiler anyway.
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