Re: [vile] How to build vile in a 'Jail shell' where uname isn't available?

[Brendan O'Dea]

On 9 April 2015 at 21:25, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> | On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 11:59:25AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> | > I'm trying to build vile for a hosting account where I have ssh
> | > access
> | > but only to a limited 'Jail shell'.  The specific problem is that
> | > uname isn't available so config.guess fails.
> | >
> | > What needs to be set so that configure won't need config.guess?
> | >
> | > ... or are there other ways around this?
> so the script has to have a case statement for those options, e.g.,
>
> #!/bin/sh
> case .$1 in
> .-m) echo i386;;
> .-r) echo 2.6.9-1;;
> .-s) echo Linux;;
> .-v) echo anything;;
> esac

configure only runs config.guess if you don't tell it what the build
host is.  You can just provide that with the --build option and it
won't run config.guess at all:

  ./configure --build=i386-unknown-linux-gnu

--bod