Re: configure problem

[Wendy Palm]

thank you, i figured out the problem based on your note.
i was looking in the wrong area (stupid, i know).

our pre-processor is giving a 0 exit status with this warning,
instead of non-zero.

thanks for the help.  i think my brain went on vacation a few days
early.

wendy


Larry Jones wrote:

> Wendy Palm writes:
>
> > i'm having a problem configuring cvs on a particular cray architecture.
> > cvs-1.11 configured and installed just fine,
> > but cvs-1.11.3 and cvs-1.11.5 fails at the
> >
> > checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> > configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> >
> > i've looked at that section of the code, and i can't figure out what
> > the heck it's trying to do.
>
> It's trying to find a C preprocessor that works correctly.  On your
> system, "cc -E" appears to run the preprocessor, but it does not work as
> expected.  In particular, preprocessing the file:
>
>         #line 2778 "configure"
>         #include "confdefs.h"
>         #include <ac_nonexistent.h>
>
> completes successfully with no error messages whereas it should have
> failed and produced an error message about not being able to find
> ac_nonexistent.h.  You may want to try running it by hand to see what's
> going on (you can stick an "exit" in the configure script at this point
> to save conftest.c [the above file] and confdefs.h if you want, but
> there shouldn't be anything interesting in confdefs.h at this point). 
> Is it possible that you actually have an ac_nonexistent.h header
> somewhere that its finding?  If so, get rid of it!
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> Moms and reason are like oil and water. -- Calvin


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wendy palm
Cray OS Sustaining Engineering, Cray Inc.
wendyp@cray.com, 651-605-9154