Thank you for your reply but how do you "try this patch"? Should I add
this lines in config.sub if so where?

Best regards/William

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 18:00, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "./configure problem"
>     on 04/01/28, William Sundberg <william / m4trade.com> writes:
> 
> |I am running RedHat 9.0 on my laptop Pentium II
> |And I have the following problem when I try to install ruby 1.8.1.
> |
> |./configure
> |checking build system type... Invalid configuration
> |`i686-pc-linux-oldld': machine `i686-pc-linux' not recognized
> |configure: error: /bin/sh ./config.sub i686-pc-linux-oldld failed
> 
> Try this patch.
> 
> 							matz.
> 
> --- config.sub	10 Apr 2003 08:37:12 -0000	1.15
> +++ config.sub	27 Jan 2004 16:59:45 -0000
> @@ -120,3 +120,3 @@ maybe_os=`echo $1 | sed 's/^\(.*\)-\([^-
>  case $maybe_os in
> -  nto-qnx* | linux-gnu* | freebsd*-gnu* | netbsd*-gnu* | storm-chaos* | os2-emx* | rtmk-nova*)
> +  nto-qnx* | linux-* | freebsd*-gnu* | netbsd*-gnu* | storm-chaos* | os2-emx* | rtmk-nova*)
>      os=-$maybe_os
> 
> 
>