Build problems

[Phil Longstaff]

On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 16:16, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Samstag, 9. Oktober 2004 21:34 schrieb Phil Longstaff:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 13:03, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > Uhh, if you have a .a that's bad.  You need a .so (shared object).
> >
> > I looked into this.  What was happening was that ./configure reported
> > that my libtool couldn't produce .so files.  This was because my host os
> > wasn't recognized (it was looking for 'linux-gnu' and my system returned
> > 'linux'.
> 
> I think on pretty much all Suse systems you need to call ./configure with 
> --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu

Thanks.  This fixed it.

Phil