How do I configure for installation?

["Petrangelo, Jeanne" <jpetrang at ciena dot com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Insight as a cross-debugger for a target 
running MontaVista (Hard Hat 3.0) linux on a PowerPC. I'm 
fairly new to linux and I don't know all the flavors. I've 
looked through the config script and can't figure out which 
target to declare. Is my target supported?  

Gleaning advice from other posts, I tried this command:
jpetrang> <path>/configure --target=powerpc-linux --prefix=~/bin
--exec-prefix = ~/bin/ppc-insight -v 2>&1 | tee configure.out

... but I don't think it worked right because while configure ran 
it spat this out:

configure: warning: /home/jpetrang/bin/ppc-insight: invalid host type
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... Invalid configuration
`/home/jpetrang/bin/ppc-insight': machine `/home/jpetrang/bin/ppc' not
recognized
checking target system type... powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
checking build system type... Invalid configuration
`/home/jpetrang/bin/ppc-insight': machine `/home/jpetrang/bin/ppc' not
recognized
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
 [...]

I'm concerned by "invalid host type" and "invalid configuration."  

I apologize if I'm asking ignorant questions because I'm accustomed 
to an embedded target that is connected directly to my windows PC 
and which does not run linux as an OS. What do I need to do 
differently for this configure script? Or is this fine? My intent 
is to create an instance of Insight accessible to me only and not 
affect the gdb already on the development host which is used by 
many other engineers.

My target already has a gdbserver and I can use remote gdb with it, 
for what that's worth.  (Will Insight work with that gdb?)

Thank you,
Jeanne

jpetrang at ciena dot com