Re: Configure error cannot guess build type you must specify one.

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, June 26, 2009 10:10 am, Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=69029
>
> perl module "perlrsync and I get this error
>
> "Configure error cannot guess build type you must specify one."
>
> how do I get past this error?

My guess is that the build process is looking only for operating system
names that it recognizes, and it's not able to understand what DragonFly
is.  You may need to run 'gmake' instead of 'make' if it's expecting GNU
make.