Ubuntu terminal: invalid host type && configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time

Posted on 24. Aug, 2009 by Dragos in Operating Systems, Ubuntu

If you get this error, then most likely a file doesn’t exist or the browser plays tricks on you, driving you mad.

For example here’s a command:

./configure –with-apxs2=/usr/bin/apxs2 –with-mysql=/usr/bin/mysql

Either /usr/bin/apxs2 doesn’t exist or the argument is incorrect. Instead of a one hyphen before “with-apxs2….”, there should be two. The browser automatically transform the two ones into a single one, leaving you with no clues as where the problem might be. Just change the single hyphen to two of them and everything should be alright.