RE: config cant guess Windows 7, with latest cygwin on a 64 bit machine.

[Patrick Moran]

Hmmm that didn’t work so well...
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address@hidden /cygdrive/c/festival
$ tar xvfz config-6ce9fc8.tar.gz
config-6ce9fc8/
config-6ce9fc8/ChangeLog
config-6ce9fc8/Makefile
config-6ce9fc8/config.guess
config-6ce9fc8/config.sub
config-6ce9fc8/testsuite/
config-6ce9fc8/testsuite/config-guess.data
config-6ce9fc8/testsuite/config-guess.sh
config-6ce9fc8/testsuite/config-sub.data
config-6ce9fc8/testsuite/config-sub.sh

address@hidden /cygdrive/c/festival
$ cd speech_tools

address@hidden /cygdrive/c/festival/speech_tools
$ make VCMakefile
***
*** Making default config file ***
***
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-cygwin
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-cygwin
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-cygwin
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ar... ar
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for tputs in -lncurses... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config/config
Check system type
config/config:193: config/systems/x86_64_unknown.mak: No such file or directory
../config/config:193: ../config/systems/x86_64_unknown.mak: No such file or 
directory
make: *** No rule to make target `../config/systems/x86_64_unknown.mak'.  Stop.
config/rules/modules.mak:133: config/modincludes.inc: No such file or directory
make --no-print-directory -C ./config MADE_FROM_ABOVE=1  MODINCLUDES=1 
INCLUDE_EVERYTHING='' modincludes.inc
../config/config:193: ../config/systems/x86_64_unknown.mak: No such file or 
directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../config/systems/x86_64_unknown.mak'.  
Stop.
config/rules/modules.mak:129: recipe for target `config/modincludes.inc' failed
make: *** [config/modincludes.inc] Error 2

address@hidden /cygdrive/c/festival/speech_tools
$

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 5:36 PM
To: Patrick Moran
Cc: config-patches
Subject: Re: config cant guess Windows 7, with latest cygwin on a 64 bit 
machine.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Patrick Moran <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trying to build speech_tools
>
> Following the attached INSTALL.txt document.
>
> Source code is available here: http://festvox.org/festival/
>
>
>
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>
>
> address@hidden /cygdrive/c/festival/speech_tools
>
> $ make VCMakefile
>
> ***
>
> *** Making default config file ***
>
> ***
>
> checking build system type... ./config.guess: unable to guess system 
> type
>
>
>
> This script, last modified 2002-01-30, has failed to recognize
>
> the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
>
> download the most up to date version of the config scripts from
>
>
>
>     ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/
>

Did you download the most current and replace the config.guess and config.sub 
in the package?  2002 is 11 years plus old; did Windows 7 exist?

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