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I am using Mandrake 10.1 and I have installed GCC and G++ packages and everything seems to be ok. mmm, when I try to compile packages it shows me"
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
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and I really don't know what the problem is. It is driving me crazy. Somebody please help me!!!
mmm, I did. The new probelm regarding this is that, now I get :
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checking dependency style of ... none
configure: error: conditional "HAVE_VLDXVMC" was never defined.
Usually this means the macro was only invoked conditionally.
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I have no idea what this means and I don't know how to fix this problem. I was trying to install XINE.
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