configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check - Page 4

brianL · 10-02-2008, 11:55 AM

If you're new to Slackware, and not sure what you will need, always do a full install.

cocobear · 10-09-2008, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wvragga

Greetings All,

this had me tearing my hair out for a while.....

The solution for me was to create 2 missing symbolic links, I got the info from the GCC install howto.

My error was that linux/limits.h did not exist .

In the dir usr/include linux should be linked to /linux/include/linux in the kernel source dir, and asm should be linked to linux/include/asm also in kernel source dir.

My commands needed were:

ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux

ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm

This assumes that you have a symbolic link in usr/src (or wherever your source is) linux that links to /linux-2.6.whatever your kernel is ;-)

Configure was looking for these links, as soon as I created them I was all good!

Respects,
Ragga ;-)

Thanks for your post, I also got the same error , my solution is :

ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/include/linux /usr/include/linux

alainscribot · 10-17-2008, 10:15 AM

Well, thanks for your advice.
My first problem was that "slackbuilds" clean up after use, including the configure.log file and leave nothing to look at. So I got something else to compile, i.e. wine-1.1.6. This generated a config.log which produced a number of lines similar to those below :

configure:3759: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "Wine"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "wine"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.1.6"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "Wine 1.1.6"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "wine-devel@winehq.org"
| /* end confdefs.h. */
| #ifdef __STDC__
| # include <limits.h>
| #else
| # include <assert.h>
| #endif
| Syntax error
configure:3753: gcc -E conftest.c
In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153,
from /usr/include/limits.h:145,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.2.3/include/limits.h:1
22,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.2.3/include/syslimits.
h:7,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.2.3/include/limits.h:1
1,
from conftest.c:9:
/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: error: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory

I'm supposing a way out is to create a link concerning "limits.h" somewhere, but I'm not sure about this, what would you do?

Cheers & thanks, A

lolenchy · 04-25-2009, 08:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zip

Thank you for posting this solution.
I had the same problem.
Who would have known that cc1 is cc1plus?
This is for Debian 3.1. ./configuration for a Graphire 4 graphics tablet.

asus:/usr/bin# ln -s /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/cc1 cc1plus

Hi,
I had this same issue on Freebsd for months and it's now solved. If using Freebsd do:

ln -s /usr/libexec/cc1 /usr/bin/cc1plus and you should be fine.