[helixed]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to compile XBMC from source using this wiki page. This reason I'm trying to do this is highlighted in this post.

The problem I'm running in to is every time I run the ./configure I get this output:

Code:

helixed@helixed-desktop:~/linuxport/XBMC$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
configure: error: ==unsupported host

I'm running this on an old Pentium 4 box using Ubuntu 8.04. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

helixed

[succo]

here is a temporary workaround

[helixed]

Okay, I tried this workaround.

Here's the terminal output:

Code:

helixed@helixed-desktop:~/linuxport/XBMC$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for ccache... none
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl.exe... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking for C++ compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Here is the config.log file:

Code:

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by "xbmc" configure 2.1, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = helixed-desktop
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.6.24-19-generic
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 22:56:21 UTC 2008

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

helixed

[althekiller]

You need to install the packages in README.linux.

May I ask why you insist on compiling even though we offer PPA installs for that distro?