On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 03:57:34PM +1000, Joseph Sirucka wrote: > Hi All > > I have just install debain potato on a 170Mhz sparc 5. > > I have installed via apt-get gcc. > > when I try to compile bash-2.05a I get the error message > > "cannot guess build type; you must specify one" > > My question is how do I get around this to compile software.
Sounds odd for that to happen. Do you have libc6-dev installed aswell? Anyway, try this: ./configure --target=sparc-linux -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

