LinuxQuestions.org - LFS 6.3 - ncurses fails compiling

I'm having some trouble compiling ncurses. Host system is Kubuntu 8.04 running in VMware. $LFS directory is /home/andrew/lfs.

On running configure, I get the following message:

Code:

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

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

Here's a dump of configure.

Code:

lfs@andrew-desktop:/home/andrew/lfs/sources/ncurses-5.6$ ./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared --without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite

checking for egrep... grep -E

Configuring NCURSES 5.6 ABI 5 (Wed May 14 14:43:24 EST 2008)

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

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

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

Configuring for linux-gnu

checking for prefix... /tools

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 executable suffix...

checking for object suffix... o

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

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking version of gcc... 4.1.2

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

checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no

checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes

checking for POSIXized ISC... no

checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... -DCC_HAS_PROTOS

checking for ldconfig... /sbin/ldconfig

checking if you want to ensure bool is consistent with C++... yes

checking for g++... g++

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

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

checking for g++... /tools/bin/g++

checking if you want to build C++ binding and demo... yes

checking if you want to build with Ada95... no

checking if you want to build programs such as tic... yes

checking if you wish to install curses.h... yes

checking for mawk... mawk

checking for egrep... (cached) grep -E

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

checking for tdlint... no

checking for lint... no

checking for alint... no

checking whether ln -s works... yes

checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes

checking if filesystem supports mixed-case filenames... yes

checking for ctags... no

checking for etags... no

checking for makeflags variable...

checking for long file names... yes

checking if filesystem supports mixed-case filenames... (cached) yes

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking for ld... ld

checking for ar... ar

checking for archiver options (symbol AR_OPTS)... rv

checking if you have specified an install-prefix...

checking if you want to build libraries with libtool... no

checking if you want to build shared libraries... yes

checking if you want to build static libraries... yes

checking if you want to build debug libraries... no

checking if you want to build profiling libraries... no

checking for specified models...  shared normal

checking for default model... shared

checking if you want to build a separate terminfo library... no

checking if you want to link with the GPM mouse library... maybe

checking for gpm.h... no

checking for default loader flags...

checking if rpath option should be used... no

checking if release/abi version should be used for shared libs... auto

checking which gcc option to use... -fPIC

checking if you wish to install ncurses overwriting curses... yes

checking if external terminfo-database is used... yes

checking which terminfo source-file will be installed... ${top_srcdir}/misc/terminfo.src

checking whether to use hashed database instead of directory/tree... no

checking for list of fallback descriptions...

checking if you want modern xterm or antique... xterm-new

checking for list of terminfo directories... /tools/share/terminfo

checking for default terminfo directory... /tools/share/terminfo

checking if big-core option selected... yes

checking if you want termcap-fallback support... no

checking if ~/.terminfo is wanted... yes

checking if you want to use restricted environment when running as root... yes

checking for remove... yes

checking for unlink... yes

checking if link/symlink functions work...  link symlink

checking if tic should use symbolic links... no

checking if tic should use hard links... yes

checking if you want broken-linker support code... no

checking if tputs should process BSD-style prefix padding... no

checking if gcc -U and -D options work together... yes

checking if we must define _GNU_SOURCE... yes

checking if SIGWINCH is defined... yes

checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes

checking if you want wide-character code... no

checking whether to enable _LP64 definition in curses.h... no

checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no

checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64

checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no

checking for _LARGEFILE_SOURCE value needed for large files... no

checking for fseeko... yes

checking whether to use struct dirent64... no

checking if you want tparm not to use X/Open fixed-parameter list... yes

checking for type of bool... auto

checking for alternate terminal capabilities file... Caps

checking for type of chtype... auto

checking for type of ospeed... short

checking for type of mmask_t... auto

checking if RCS identifiers should be compiled-in... no

checking format of man-pages...  gzip

checking for manpage renaming... /home/andrew/lfs/sources/ncurses-5.6/man/man_db.renames

checking if manpage aliases will be installed... yes

checking if manpage symlinks should be used... yes

checking for manpage tbl... no

checking if you want to build with function extensions... yes

checking for extended use of const keyword... no

checking if you want $NCURSES_NO_PADDING code... yes

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 for signed char... yes

checking size of signed char... 1

checking if you want to use signed Boolean array in term.h... no

checking if you want SIGWINCH handler... yes

checking if you want user-definable terminal capabilities like termcap... yes

checking if you want all development code... no

checking if you want hard-tabs code... no

checking if you want limited support for xmc... no

checking if you do not want to assume colors are white-on-black... yes

checking if you want hashmap scrolling-optimization code... yes

checking if you want colorfgbg code... no

checking if you want to use experimental extended colors... no

checking if you want to use experimental extended mouse encoding... no

checking if you want experimental safe-sprintf code... no

checking if you want experimental wgetch-events code... no

checking if you want to display full commands during build... yes

checking if you want to see compiler warnings...

configure: checking for gcc __attribute__ directives...

... scanf

... printf

... unused

... noreturn

checking if you want to enable runtime assertions... no

checking if you want to use dmalloc for testing... no

checking if you want to use dbmalloc for testing... no

checking if you want to use valgrind for testing... no

checking if you want to perform memory-leak testing... no

checking whether to add trace feature to all models... no

checking for gettimeofday... yes

checking if -lm needed for math functions... yes

checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes

checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes

checking for opendir in -ldir... no

checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes

checking for regular-expression headers... regex.h

checking for fcntl.h... yes

checking for getopt.h... yes

checking for limits.h... yes

checking for locale.h... yes

checking for poll.h... yes

checking for sys/bsdtypes.h... no

checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes

checking for sys/param.h... yes

checking for sys/poll.h... yes

checking for sys/select.h... yes

checking for sys/time.h... yes

checking for sys/times.h... yes

checking for ttyent.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes

checking for wctype.h... yes

checking if sys/time.h works with sys/select.h... yes

checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed

checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes

checking for inline... inline

checking for type of chtype... long

checking if unsigned literals are legal... yes

checking if external errno is declared... yes

checking if external errno exists... no

checking if data-only library module links... yes

checking for getcwd... yes

checking for getegid... yes

checking for geteuid... yes

checking for getttynam... yes

checking for issetugid... no

checking for poll... yes

checking for remove... (cached) yes

checking for select... yes

checking for setbuf... yes

checking for setbuffer... yes

checking for setvbuf... yes

checking for sigaction... yes

checking for sigvec... yes

checking for strdup... yes

checking for strstr... yes

checking for tcgetpgrp... yes

checking for times... yes

checking for vsnprintf... yes

checking for isascii... yes

checking whether sigaction needs _POSIX_SOURCE... no

checking if nanosleep really works... yes

checking for termio.h... yes

checking for termios.h... yes

checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes

checking whether termios.h needs _POSIX_SOURCE... no

checking for tcgetattr... yes

checking for vsscanf function or workaround... vsscanf

checking for working mkstemp... yes

checking whether setvbuf arguments are reversed... no

checking return type of signal handlers... void

checking for type sigaction_t... no

checking declaration of size-change... yes

checking for memmove... yes

checking if poll really works... yes

checking if we should include stdbool.h... yes

checking for builtin bool type... no

checking whether /tools/bin/g++ understands -c and -o together... no

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

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

Does this mean that I have no C++ compiler? Because I thought I compiled that in 5.11.1. I tried recompiling GCC as in 5.11.1, incase I made a typo somewhere there, but I still get the same result. I am pretty noob at this, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

Oh, and here's the contents of $LFS/tools/bin if that helps...(it seems I've got cpp, but no g++...)

Code:

fs@andrew-desktop:/home/andrew/lfs/sources/ncurses-5.6$ ls /tools/bin -h -l

total 47M

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 2.5M May 14 14:09 addr2line

-rwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 2.6M May 14 14:09 ar

-rwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 3.5M May 14 14:09 as

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 2.5M May 14 14:09 c++filt

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 3.3K May 14 12:48 catchsegv

lrwxrwxrwx 1 lfs lfs    3 May 14 12:16 cc -> gcc

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 303K May 14 12:16 cpp

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 158K May 14 13:11 expect

-rwxr-xr-x 3 lfs lfs 300K May 14 12:16 gcc

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs  16K May 14 12:16 gccbug

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs  72K May 14 12:16 gcov

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs  49K May 14 12:47 gencat

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs  31K May 14 12:47 getconf

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs  49K May 14 12:48 getent

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 2.8M May 14 14:09 gprof

-rwxr-xr-x 3 lfs lfs 300K May 14 12:16 i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

-rwxr-xr-x 3 lfs lfs 300K May 14 12:16 i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc-4.1.2

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 160K May 14 12:47 iconv

-rwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 3.4M May 14 14:09 ld

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 3.4M May 14 14:10 ld-new

-rwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 3.4M May 14 11:41 ld-old

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 5.7K May 14 12:48 ldd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs  16K May 14 12:48 lddlibc4

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs  84K May 14 12:47 locale

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 771K May 14 12:47 localedef

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 6.4K May 14 12:47 mtrace

-rwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 2.5M May 14 14:09 nm

-rwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 3.0M May 14 14:09 objcopy

-rwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 3.3M May 14 14:09 objdump

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs  20K May 14 12:48 pcprofiledump

-rwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 2.6M May 14 14:09 ranlib

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 491K May 14 14:09 readelf

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 197K May 14 12:48 rpcgen

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 2.9K May 14 13:12 runtest

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 2.5M May 14 14:09 size

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs  57K May 14 12:48 sprof

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 2.5M May 14 14:09 strings

-rwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 3.0M May 14 14:09 strip

lrwxrwxrwx 1 lfs lfs    8 May 14 13:07 tclsh -> tclsh8.4

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 8.7K May 14 13:06 tclsh8.4

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 6.8K May 14 12:47 tzselect

-rwxr-xr-x 1 lfs lfs 5.2K May 14 12:48 xtrace

Thanks for any help, hopefully this makes sense.

Doomed

EDIT: Ah, problem solved. I was accidentally omitting the -k on "make -k check" when compiling gcc. Did "make -k check" then "make install" and ncurses compiled fine. Ah well, these things happen I guess, at least its fixed.