I have successfully built gcc-2.95.2 and gpc on one of my Linux systems. I have just done a fresh install of Linux (RedHat 6.0) on a different system. I have installed the gcc-2.95.2 sources and the latest gpc snapshot (from the same tar files as used for the first installation). I have successfully applied the gpc patches. However when I try to ../gcc-29.2/configure --enable-languages=c++,pascal the process fails almost immediately with the message "config.guess failed to determine the host type. You need to specify one". By running configure on the first system I deduce the host type should be i586-pc-linux-gnu however specifying this leads to another error message. Clearly something is wrong with my Linux installation on the second machine (I guess a required package is not installed) but I can't figure out what to do.
Anybody any suggestions as to what to do next?