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error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

Code:

#./configure --prefix=/usr/local/

configure: error: you must configure in a separate build directory

0x1:/usr/src/glibc-2.7# /usr/src/glibc-2.7/configure --prefix=/usr/local/

configure: error: you must configure in a separate build directory

0x1:/usr/src/glibc-2.7# cd ..

0x1:/usr/src# /usr/src/glibc-2.7/configure --prefix=/usr/local/

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

configure: running configure fragment for add-on nptl

checking sysdep dirs... sysdeps/i386/elf nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686 nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux nptl/sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/common sysdeps/unix/mman sysdeps/unix/inet sysdeps/unix/sysv/i386 nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/i386 nptl/sysdeps/unix sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix sysdeps/i386/i686/fpu nptl/sysdeps/i386/i686 sysdeps/i386/i686 sysdeps/i386/i486 nptl/sysdeps/i386/i486 sysdeps/i386/fpu nptl/sysdeps/i386 sysdeps/i386 sysdeps/wordsize-32 sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 sysdeps/ieee754 sysdeps/generic/elf sysdeps/generic

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether ln -s works... yes

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... unsupported

checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp

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

See `config.log' for more details.

I have my kernel headers, kernel source, cpp compiler, EVERYTHING installed, this does not make sense, nor is there a posted solution to it.

Debian Etch.

What is in the config.log (just the bits which refer to cpp should suffice)?

I did a search for 'cpp' through the config.log

Code:

## ---------------- ##

## Cache variables. ##

## ---------------- ##



ac_cv_env_CCC_set=

ac_cv_env_CCC_value=

ac_cv_env_CC_set=

ac_cv_env_CC_value=

ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=

ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=

ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=

ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=

ac_cv_env_CPP_set=

ac_cv_env_CPP_value=

ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_set=

ac_cv_env_CXXFLAGS_value=

ac_cv_env_CXX_set=

ac_cv_env_CXX_value=

ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=

ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=

ac_cv_env_LIBS_set=

ac_cv_env_LIBS_value=

ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=

ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=

ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=

ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=

ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=

ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=



## ----------------- ##

## Output variables. ##

## ----------------- ##



AR=''

AS=''

ASFLAGS_config=''

AUTOCONF=''

AWK=''

BASH_SHELL=''

BISON=''

BUILD_CC=''

CC=''

CFLAGS=''

CPP=''

CPPFLAGS=''

CXX=''

CXXFLAGS=''

CXX_SYSINCLUDES=''

DEFINES=''

DEFS=''

ECHO_C=''

ECHO_N='-n'

This is all there is that so much as mentions cpp.

I don't know what you're trying to configure there, but it seems
to be swearing at you higher up already ...

Code:

#./configure --prefix=/usr/local/

configure: error: you must configure in a separate build directory

0x1:/usr/src/glibc-2.7# /usr/src/glibc-2.7/configure --prefix=/usr/local/

configure: error: you must configure in a separate build directory

Maybe you want to read the README and/or INSTALL first?

Cheers,
Tink

Please look at my code properly : /

After running that command I did cd out and give it a prefix...

Code:

#./configure --prefix=/usr/local/

configure: error: you must configure in a separate build directory

0x1:/usr/src/glibc-2.7# /usr/src/glibc-2.7/configure --prefix=/usr/local/

configure: error: you must configure in a separate build directory

0x1:/usr/src/glibc-2.7# cd ..

0x1:/usr/src# /usr/src/glibc-2.7/configure --prefix=/usr/local/

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

configure: running configure fragment for add-on nptl

And it's glibc-2.7

Thanks for your help

This is a serious issue, I can not compile my WACOM drivers either. It happens everytime I reinstall debian and I have found no solution.

Every single person who uses debian should experience this;

How is it fixed? I should mention I have build-essential already installed also...

You will find this exact statement in the config.log

Quote:

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

. It will be right before the failed step. Search your config.log again.

Set the environment variable CPP=/lib/cpp

I helped for me...but not for this package ,its for globus

what command do i use to do that? :)

Thanks

I typed CPP=/lib/cpp/ and it solved nothing.

http://pastebin.com/f58de519a

proper config.log^

Thanks

In your pastebin, look at lines 546-724. The configure script is testing cpp and tries several different tests, all of which fail for the same reason. This is the last test just before it spits your error message.

Code:

#configure:3875: /lib/cpp  conftest.c

#In file included from /usr/local/include/features.h:354,

#                from /usr/local/include/limits.h:27,

#                from conftest.c:10:

#/usr/local/include/gnu/stubs.h:7:27: error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory

#configure:3881: $? = 1

#configure: failed program was:

#| /* confdefs.h.  */

#| #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU C Library"

#| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "c-library"

#| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "(see version.h)"

#| #define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU C Library (see version.h)"

#| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "glibc"

#| #define USE_REGPARMS 1

#| /* end confdefs.h.  */

#| #ifdef __STDC__

#| # include <limits.h>

#| #else

#| # include <assert.h>

#| #endif

#|                    Syntax error

#configure:3943: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

I'm not a Debian user, so I can't tell you the exact name of the package providing the missing file. I can tell you that glibc provides the stubs-32.h header file though.

I've searched google for over an hour trying to find glibc that I can install on debian, but I can't even get sources... It only seems to exist for redhat/fedora as an rpm. Nothing else.

Also:

Code:

0x1:/home/main# apt-get install glibc-devel

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

E: Couldn't find package glibc-devel

0x1:/home/main# apt-cache search glibc

linux-kernel-headers - Linux Kernel Headers for development

manpages-fr-dev - French version of the development manual pages

abicheck - binary compatibility checking tool

glibc-doc - GNU C Library: Documentation

ja-trans - Japanese gettext message files

kmtrace - a KDE memory leak tracer

libc6 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries

libc6-pic - GNU C Library: PIC archive library

libdb1-compat - The Berkeley database routines [glibc 2.0/2.1 compatibility]

libg++2.8.1.3-glibc2.2 - The GNU C++ extension library - runtime version

libgetopt-java - GNU getopt - Java port

libggz-dev - GGZ Gaming Zone: common utilities library - development files

libggz2 - GGZ Gaming Zone: common utilities library

libnss-ldap - NSS module for using LDAP as a naming service

libnss-mdns - NSS module for Multicast DNS name resolution

libnss-pgsql1 - name service switch module using PostgreSQL

libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 - The GNU stdc++ library

linuxinfo - Displays extended system information

manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development

manpages-pl-dev - Polish man pages for developers

perdition-dev - Development libraries and headers for perdition

perdition-ldap - Library to allow perdition to access LDAP based popmaps

perdition-mysql - Library to allow perdition to access MySQL based popmaps

perdition-odbc - Library to allow perdition to access ODBC based popmaps

perdition-postgresql - Library to allow perdition to access PostgreSQL based popmaps

python-utmp - python module for working with utmp

winbind - service to resolve user and group information from Windows NT servers

glibc-doc-reference - GNU C Library: Documentation

0x1:/home/main#

Try
apt-cache search libc6-dev

Cheers,
Tink

Already installed.

Code:

main@0x1:~$ apt-cache search libc6-dev

libc6-dev - GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files

libc6-dev-amd64 - GNU C Library: 64bit Development Libraries for AMD64

0x1:/home/main# apt-get install libc6-dev

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

libc6-dev is already the newest version.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

0x1:/home/main#

Quote:

Originally Posted by Virtuality (Post 3009357)

I've searched google for over an hour trying to find glibc that I can install on debian, but I can't even get sources...

Are you kidding!!! Google glibc and the first hit is the glibc homepage --> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ where you click on Availability to get to the link to the ftp server --> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/ where you can get the source for glibc.

Since you already have glibc installed, is the stubs-32.h file installed in /usr/include/gnu or somewhere else? Is it even installed at all?