#16 Cannot Build with ./configure

[Jason Martin]

When trying to configure chessd on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I get the following error:

root@jason-thumbprint:~/chess/chessd-0.3.1# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... none
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for bison... no
checking for byacc... no
checking build system type... configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one

I have tried to search for a solution to this, but I have come up with nothing. I did learn the autoconf, and tried that but I had the same end result.

Jason

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I get just the following on RHEL5:

[strycat@mybox /tmp/chessd-0.3.1]$./configure
configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in auxdir "."/auxdir
[strycat@mybox /tmp/chessd-0.3.1]$