checking installation prefix of compiler... configure: error: Don't know > how to run 'type' on this host

https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/gems-users/2008-August/msg00029.shtml

 

 

Hi:
    If you could elaborate more about which system you are working on,
it might help more. I suspect that you are using Ubuntu, and if you
are using Ubuntu from 7.04 on, then check out the following link.

http://transactionalmemory.blogspot.com/2007/11/simics-22-conflict-with-ubuntu-704-and.html


On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Mitchelle Rasquinha
<mrasquinha3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have the following error when I am trying to install GEMS...
>
> checking for Simics host type... x86-linux
> checking for bash... /bin/bash
> checking for gmake... no
> checking for make... /usr/bin/make
> configure: loading host
> defaults: /home/mitchelle/workspace/gems-2.1/simics/config/host-defaults.common
> configure: loading host
> defaults: /home/mitchelle/workspace/gems-2.1/simics/config/host-defaults.x86-linux
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking Perl version... ok (5.8.8)
> parsing: /home/mitchelle/workspace/gems-2.1/simics/config/host-flags.common
> parsing: /home/mitchelle/workspace/gems-2.1/simics/config/host-flags.x86-linux
> parsing: /home/mitchelle/workspace/gems-2.1/simics/config/host-flags.optional
> checking whether /usr/bin/make sets ${MAKE}... yes
> checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
> checking installation prefix of compiler... configure: error: Don't know
> how to run 'type' on this host.
>
>
> Does anyone know what a good workaround is?
>
> -Mitchelle.
>
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Regards
James Wang

http://transactionalmemory.blogspot.com/2007/11/simics-22-conflict-with-ubuntu-704-and.html

Simics 2.2 conflict with Ubuntu 7.04 and On 
Simics 2.2 conflict with Ubuntu 7.04 and On because Ubuntu uses dash rather bash. Here is the solution:
checking installation prefix of compiler... configure: error: Don't know how to run 'type' on this host.

To check do ls -l /bin/sh. If it links to dash, you can replace it with a link to bash: ln -sf bash /bin/sh. 

Note that root privileges are required.