Re: configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

[Bill Moseley]

Can someone comment on this?
Trying to understand if this problem is due to my configure.in script,
the debian packages, or autoconf.



On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:23:08AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'm getting the "fails sanity check"  on my laptop running Debian Sid
> after doing a dist-upgrade the other day.  I have these packages:
> 
> ii  autoconf        2.57-11         automatic configure script builder
> ii  gcc             3.3.1-2         The GNU C compiler.
> 
> Here's the error:
> 
> $ ./configure >/dev/null
> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> and config.log says:
> 
> configure:4895: /lib/cpp  conftest.cc
> cpp: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory
> configure:4901: $? = 1
> 
> "cc1plus" is in the g++ package on Debain, which I do *not* have
> installed.
> 
> Our project does not use C++.  Is that "sanity check" standard part of
> every configure or am I somehow triggering that test in my
> configure.in?
> 
> Here's my configure.in:
> 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/swishe/swish-e/configure.in?rev=1.66
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bill Moseley
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> 

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