configure script does not like $HOST

[Sam Halliday]

hi there,

i was recently building an ncurses tarball for a friend on an i586, so i
built with the flags

--build=i586 --host=i586-pc-linux-gnu --target=i586-pc-linux-gnu

the problem is that the install tries to 'fix' the names of all the
progs to pre-pend the machine type (that is annoying to begin with)...
but then fails miserbaly and neglects to install ANY of the progs (eg
clear, toe, infocmp, etc.). The same name pre-pending occurs in the man
pages but they get installed correctly (but im never gonna get to read
them now with those long names, am i?).

Is there any chance of fixing up the make and install procedure so that
this prepending does not occur at all? ncurses is the only package i
have ever seen which does this...

thanks in advance!
Sam