I've seen that, when the configure script runs, when naming my host or target, it says unknown-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

is this correct? or may I change the target triplet name, but... in case it's a 'yes', where can I change this? where is this value located?

Julio

If I understand your question correctly, you want to change the hostname to an acceptable one...?

On my system, at least, there are two places to change it: let's imagine you want your machine to be called "madrid" for the purpose of this example.

(1) In the /etc/hosts file: let it read
(2) In the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file, find the line beginning "HOSTNAME=" and change the name (it probably reads "localhost") after the equals sign to "madrid" (without quotes).

This is what works for me, using MandrakeLinux 9.2. It enabled sendmail to work correctly, among other things.

no, what I mean is the following:

when you run the ./configure script for compiling any package like gaim, firefox, quakeforge, you name it... you first run the configure script for it to obtain the configuration previous to making the program...

well... in some parts of the ./configure script it looks for the target machine for compilation, let's say you have a pentium3/4, then your configure script would throw something like this:

i686-pc-linux-gnu

my 'problem' is... it says it's x86_64-unknown (or the opposite, don't remember well hehe ) and that's what looks strange for me...

Julio

Ah, I see. Sorry, I misunderstood. Afraid I can't help you with compiling problems, but I'm sure you'll get an answer soon. Well, pretty sure! Good luck.

You have 2 options...

1) hack config.guess on every package to make it determine your system the way you want it to
2) specify --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu to configure (and possibly --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu if configure gets upset and thinks you are cross-compiling)

HTH
[R]