Bug 45

Summary:	configure doesn't work on Mac OS/X
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Tim Skirvin <tskirvin>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	low
Priority:	normal
Version:	1.6.3
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other

Description Tim Skirvin 2001-07-09 08:50:20 MDT

monaco /tmp/sudo-1.6.3p7% ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/encap/sudo-1.6.3p7
--sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc
creating cache ./config.cache
Configuring Sudo version 1.6.3
[...]
checking host system type... gmaconfigure: error: can not guess host type; you
must specify one

monaco /tmp/sudo-1.6.3p7% uname -a
Darwin monaco.ks.uiuc.edu 1.3.7 Darwin Kernel Version 1.3.7: Sat Jun  9 11:12:48
PDT 2001; root:xnu/xnu-124.13.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2001-07-16 20:06:59 MDT

Does MacOS X have an /etc/master.passwd file?

Comment 2 Todd C. Miller 2001-12-12 13:43:59 MST

The next release of sudo will contain a configure script generated from the latest version of
autoconf which reconizes MacOS X.