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

The error message may also include instructions on how to deal with this. In my case I saw

This script, last modified 2008-01-23, has failed to recognize
the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
download the most up to date version of the config scripts from

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD
and
  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD

In a browser I was able to access those files, save them to to my system, and then overwrite the respective ./config/config.guess and ./config/config.sub files in the package being built.