Re: Trying to configure bash

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, Feb 5, 2024, at 10:16 PM, Daniel Premo wrote:
> root@F005-068E /root/projects/bash/bash-5.2.21 [#] ./configure
> checking build system type... ././support/config.guess: unable to guess 
> system type
> 
> NOTE: MIPS GNU/Linux systems require a C compiler to fully recognize
> the system type. Please install a C compiler and try again.

*Do* you have a C compiler installed?  You're going to need one anyway,
in order to build bash, so you might as well make sure of that now.

The code that tries to find a C compiler, looks for it under the names
"cc", "gcc", "c89", and "c99", in that order.  Check not only that
it's installed, but that it *works*; for instance, your problem could
be that you have the compiler but not all of the C library, and so it
can't actually produce executables.

zw

@config-patches at large: maybe the "unable to guess system type"
diagnostics should report on the availability of a C compiler in
detail, as well as what they already produce?