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

[Paul Krash]

Bill Moseley <moseley <at> hank.org> writes:


> 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.

I was getting the same error installing courier-authlib!

You have to install the g++ libs and tools for Debian

apt-get install g++

this should fix your configure error.

Best,

PKrash v.4.2