MacOS – Trying to compile thttpd 2.27 on Mac OS X 10.11

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I'm trying to compile thttpd 2.27 on Mac OS X 10.11 from source, but when I issue: 

./configure

It shows:

creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one

I try to search online, someone said I should copy some files from /usr/share/libtool/config* but the path does not exist in Mac OS X 10.11.

How can I resolve this problem?

p.s. I have Xcode (with Command Line Tools), Homebrew, libtool, automake and other build tools installed, but I still can't configure & compile this.

Best Answer

You have at least two options:

  1. Install MacPorts. Install thttpd with this command:

    sudo port install thttpd

    I am not using MacPorts and this is untested.

  2. Download config.sub.diff and config.guess.diff and put them into thttpd source directory. Execute these commands to patch the config files:

    patch -R < config.sub.diff
patch -R < config.guess.diff
./configure
make

    It will compile the source. You may now consider to install compiled binary.

[Original source of diff files is here.]

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