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Re: Help



On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 15:01:40 BST, Serge Halberstadt wrote: 
>Hi,
>
>I was installing the ns2 when I had the following error message after
>typing ./install (the nsallinone package):
>"checking whether char is unsigned... configure: error: can not run test
>program while cross compiling
>tcl8.0 configuration failed! Exiting ..."
>
>My platform is a SunUltra-1 with SunOS 5.6 Generic sun4u. I wonder if
>you have come across this kind of problem.

Sounds like you have a misconfigured or misinstalled gcc
(that makes configure think it's cross-compiling).

You could try Sun's CC, or try reinstalling gcc, or look into how
configure is generating this message and override it.

   -John Heidemann