Bug 89729 – configure always print a warning message about possibly mistaking build system type

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Francesco Lamonica 2005-04-19 15:59:04 UTC]

whenever compiling a package configure complains with the following warning:

./configure --prefix=/usr --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --without-tcl --without-tk
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
    If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.

setting the --build switch (in addition to host) to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu will solve the issue.

Reproducible: Always
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Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Apr 19 2005, 11:41:33)]
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.14
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fweb -ftracers"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -fweb -ftracers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en it"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups curl
dvd dvdr encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk
gtk2 imagemagick imlib jp2 jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mboxmikmod
motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre perl png python qt
readline samba sdl spell sqlite ssl tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xv
xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_it"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-04-20 07:18:14 UTC]

Note, the fix will only affect ebuilds that use econf directly or indirectly.

[Comment 2 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-05-15 05:50:27 UTC]

I believe this has been fixed already?

[Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-05-15 06:01:46 UTC]

Yes, but it's not yet stabled.

[Comment 4 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-07-14 05:47:40 UTC]

Fixed on or before 2.0.51.22-r1 

[Comment 5 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-07-14 06:58:27 UTC]

Looking through the batch of bugs, I'm not sure that some of these are 
actually fixed in stable. Others, the requirements have possibly changed after 
the initial fix was committed. 
 
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