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Re: Why does 'configure' look for localhost-g++ ???
From: |
Dr. David Kirkby |
Subject: |
Re: Why does 'configure' look for localhost-g++ ??? |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 22:14:05 +0100 |
Warren Young wrote:
>
> Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> >>So don't use --host at all.
> >
> > It was suggested to me by Robert Collins, that's why I did it.
>
> In his comment above, he told you to read the docs so you would realize
> that --host is not used for telling it the hostname of the machine you
> wish to compile the program on.
>
> > So why does it now work?
>
> Nevermind why it accidentally works when building on other machines.
> Drop the --host and it should continue working on them, and also on
> localhost.
Sorry, I confused matters there by saying "So why does it now work?".
It does *NOT* work on the local host!!! (Quite what I had it mind when
I said that I don't know).
It works fine on every remote host, but not on local host.
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