Re: BZDEV: porting to Linux on Pentium II processors

From: Todd Veldhuizen (tveldhui@extreme.indiana.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 22 2000 - 11:20:53 EST


Hi Fabian,

Sounds like the "config.guess" file included with blitz doesn't
work well with your distribution of linux. I'm glad the install
worked though.

Cheers,
Todd

Fabian Buchmann wrote:
>
> hi Tod
> first of all: Blitz is great!!
> I am a student at the swiss federal institute of technology at zuerich
> (switzerland) and I would just like to inform you about the following:
> I tried to install Blitz at home, where I have a Intel Pentium II
> processor and I am running SuSe Linux. When I run ./configure
> --with-cxx=egcs installation stopped with something like "unknown host
> type, you must specify one". so I tried ./configure --with-cxx=egcs
> hosttype=i386
> now, the 'strange thing' happened: the configure script prompted "wrong
> hosttype" - but it finished nevertheless. Afterwards, make lib completed
> as well and the library was installed, and almost all tests passed (make
> check). I can now perfectly use the library.
> I dont know, maybe this is a 'feature' ;-) of european Intel processors
> or something else - just wanted to inform you about it.
> greetings from switzerland, Fabian
>
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