Posts Tagged ‘checking’

Fix “checking build system type… Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux’: machine `x86_64-unknown’ not recognized” on ./configure

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

I’m trying to compile vqadmin on x86_amd64 (64 bit Debian) and I got error during ./configure . The error I got is as follows:

debian:~/vqadmin-2.3.7# ./configure --enable-cgibindir=/var/www/mail/cgi-bin -enable-htmldir=/var/www/mail/ --enable-isoqlog=y
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/downloads/vqadmin-2.3.7/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/downloads/vqadmin-2.3.7/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized

So my compile failed with:
checking build system type… Invalid configuration `x86_64-unknown-linux’: machine `x86_64-unknown’ not recognized

Thanksfully, there is a tiny script which originally is part of the CVS project. I’ve modified a bit the script to remove few lines of code which are not necessery. The `x86_64-unknown-linux’: machine `x86_64-unknown’ not recognized fix script fix_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.sh is here

To fix up the broken configure all required is:

debian:~/vqadmin-2.3.7# sh fix_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.sh

Next on I could compile normally again vqadmin just fine.

Few websites to check how anonymous you are on the Internet

Monday, April 11th, 2011

A friend of mine has recommended, few websites which are quite useful in checking what kind of information a remote website could possibly retrieve about your system. I’ve found quite useful as they expose the high level of browser security there is nowdays even on a Linux based systems.
I’ve been stunned that so many information about my Linux desktop could be mined even when I use my browser through a tor network.

Here are the websites you might also like to check and possibly afterwards improve your Browser security:

http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/help/jap_help/en/help/security_test.html
http://www.proxy-list.org/en/show-my-ip.php
http://leader.ru/secure/who.html

I was rather shocked that some information that could be retrieved on my Linux host could even reveal fundamental details about my Linux Desktop like a version of my currently running Linux kernel!

In the past I’ve blogged an article which is quite related to the topic of Internet Anonimity and Browser security

You might consider checking my old article How to improve your web browser security and better secure your personal identity privacy on the internet here
I will take some steps further to look on how to further decrease the amount of OS sensitive data revealed by my browser and will further blog when I find ways for better ways to anonimize my surging.