On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:31:00AM -0700, Sevatio Octavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to run "./configure" for installing Gimp.  It keeps stopping with an 
>error that says: "checking host system type...
> configure: error: cannot guess host type: you must specify one".
> 
> Where would you specify such the host system type and what do you fix so this won't 
>happen again?

Normally would do ./configure i586-pc-linux-gnu or something similar.
However, the most probable cause for your problems is that your compile is
not installed (or not properly installed).

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