rpm and platform detection

[Alice Wonder]

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 06:16 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote:

> 
> Anyway, if anyone knows what part of my tool chain is lacking resulting
> in configure not detecting that I'm linux, I would very much appreciate
> it.

OK - it looks like config.guess is where I need to investigate.
The %configure macro was incorrect resulting in inability to build
shared libs, editing /var/lib/rpm/macros and changing once instance of
"none" to "linux" fixed that, and that part of the macros file indicated
it was generated based on config.guess.

So I'm closer to figuring it out.