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Problem building XQF

Hi,

I'm trying to compile the latest version of XQF but it seems to be having trouble finding any compilers. Here's what happens when I run the configure script:

Code:

toranaga:~/download/xqf-0.9.13$ ./configure

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

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for gawk... no

checking for mawk... mawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

checking for gcc... gcc

checking for C compiler default output... a.out

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking whether we are cross compiling... no

checking for suffix of executables...

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 ANSI C... none needed

checking for style of include used by make... GNU

checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3

checking for strerror in -lcposix... no

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

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

checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed

checking for egrep... grep -E

checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld

checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes

checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r

checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B

checking whether ln -s works... yes

checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all

checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E

checking for ANSI C header files... yes

checking for sys/types.h... yes

checking for sys/stat.h... yes

checking for stdlib.h... yes

checking for string.h... yes

checking for memory.h... yes

checking for strings.h... yes

checking for inttypes.h... yes

checking for stdint.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... yes

checking dlfcn.h usability... yes

checking dlfcn.h presence... yes

checking for dlfcn.h... yes

checking for g++... no

checking for c++... no

checking for gpp... no

checking for aCC... no

checking for CC... no

checking for cxx... no

checking for cc++... no

checking for cl... no

checking for FCC... no

checking for KCC... no

checking for RCC... no

checking for xlC_r... no

checking for xlC... no

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no

checking whether g++ accepts -g... no

checking dependency style of g++... none

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've managed to build other programs with no trouble at all but XQF just refuses to work. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
D.

i had the same problem a couple of days ago, and it turned out to be much simpler than i thought. you simply don't have a c++ compiler installed. i downloaded and installed the gcc2.96-c++ rpm and its dependencies, all which i got from rpmfind.net (although i don't know if you can get debian rpms there or not). you might have to install gcc-cpp and gcc2.96-cpp rpms as well, i don't remember if they are necessary. i don't really know much about debian, so you may even have to compile it from source. you should be able to get the source files from:

http://gcc.gnu.org/

and here's the post where tinkster explained everything to me and helped me fix this same problem:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=124961

although i still haven't been able to compile apollon cause of a qt problem :( anyway hope this helps

Code:

toranaga:/home/simon/download/xqf-0.9.13# /lib/cpp -v

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/specs

Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux

Thread model: posix

gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)

 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/cc1 -E -quiet -v -iprefix /lib/../lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/ -

ignoring nonexistent directory "/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/include"

ignoring nonexistent directory "/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/../../../../i486-linux/include"

ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/i486-linux/include"

#include "..." search starts here:

#include <...> search starts here:

 /usr/local/include

 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/include

 /usr/include

Code:

toranaga:/home/simon/download/xqf-0.9.13# gcc -v

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/specs

Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux

Thread model: posix

gcc version 3.3.2 (Debian)

I've installed every version of cpp and gcc I can find but I still get the same error message as before :/