1 <qandaentry id="conf-guess-fail">
2 <question><para>configure can't guess my host type.</para></question>
3 <answer><para>Typical symptoms look like this:
4 <screen>sk ~/tmp-0.0 $ ./configure
5 creating cache ./config.cache
6 checking host system type... <emphasis role="strong">configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one</emphasis>
9 <para>The problem is usually that the script can't run the compiler.
10 Usually it's just a missing /usr/bin/cc symlink. You can fix it like this:
14 <para>If that doesn't do it, check the file config.log created by configure.
15 Errors go there and may indicate the problem.