Re: configure script does not like $HOST

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Sam Halliday wrote:

> hi there,
>
> i was recently building an ncurses tarball for a friend on an i586, so i
> built with the flags

what version of ncurses are you using?

>
> --build=i586 --host=i586-pc-linux-gnu --target=i586-pc-linux-gnu
>
> the problem is that the install tries to 'fix' the names of all the
> progs to pre-pend the machine type (that is annoying to begin with)...
> but then fails miserbaly and neglects to install ANY of the progs (eg
> clear, toe, infocmp, etc.). The same name pre-pending occurs in the man
> pages but they get installed correctly (but im never gonna get to read
> them now with those long names, am i?).
>
> Is there any chance of fixing up the make and install procedure so that
> this prepending does not occur at all? ncurses is the only package i
> have ever seen which does this...
>
> thanks in advance!
> Sam
>
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