I am installing the linux software, after tar the soft, I did ./configure,but got warning message:
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

Who can tell me why? thanks!

I could be wrong on this one, but I think you're missing the gcc or g++ compiler. I'd check to make sure you have these installed and give it another go.

I have checked that I have gcc and g++, the version is 3.2.2-5.

Not sure if it'll help, but you may want to look at threadid=124961&highlight=cpp. That's all I can come up with at the moment.

The configure-script should produce a log file in the current directory.

You can also look at the file itself (e.g. less configure), and look for the word "sanity check." You can thereby see exactly what configure is trying to do, and why it is failing.

you are missing something from your development environment, unless you post the relevant portion of the config.log ( in the source directory you ran ./configure from) it's hard to say what it is. if the software needs the kernel headers and you don't have them installed it will do this, as well as other things but check the above.

Hi, __J, I can't paste the configure.log,can we chat in MSN?
My MSN: jiliinsupcom@hotmail.com

Well, I find these in configure.log
Syntax error
configure:4002: /lib/cpp conftest.c
In file include from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/include/syslimits.h:7
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/include/limits.h:11,
from conftest.c:13:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/include/limits.h:132:75: limits.h: No such file or
directory

so how to get limits.h?

limits.h IIRC comes from glibc, if you are on an rpm or debian based distro, you may need to install a package called glibc-devel. it could also come from the kernel-headers package ( sorry, I'm transferring music to portable right now on windows so I can't double check for a few more min.) note that the kernel-headers package is not the same as the kernel-source package, and when installing either glibc-devel or kernel-headers packages, you must make sure they are the correct ones ( do not install a mandrivia kernel-headers package on say a suse 9.3 system, or a suse 9.2 kernel-headers package on suse 9.3, your best bet when installing system packages like these is to grab them straight off of your install cd's/dvd or a official mirror for your distro and version).

as soon as my files get done transferring, I'll double check where that header file comes from.

double checked and limits.h comes from glibc, make sure if your running a distro like explained above that you have glibc-devel installed.