How to resolve configure guessing build type failure?

Question

When I configure (under cygwin environment), an error occurred, Message are following:

$ ./configure
.................
checking build system type... /bin/sh:         


        

Answer 1

search for /usr/share/automake*/config.guess

check the latest version of automake

$ which automake
$ automake --version

find the appropriate automake folder in /usr/share/automake.1.11.1/config.guess

replace config.guess from your build tree with /usr/share/automake.1.11.1/config.guess

(The same may/is usually needed for config.sub.)