configure error

Eclectic · 05-30-2009, 10:01 AM

I cant seem to figure this out:

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

Its not localized to the one peice of software, its happening on everything I try to compile from source.

It IS a new server I have, and trying to set up, Its running OpenSuSe11.1 as I figured Id be fine with it, having used it a fair bit, and being quite in love with YaST. But alas, YaST doesnt help when working on a server a mans way lol.

I have installed gcc twice, and just about everything else gcc* in an attempt to remedy it.

Auto-make, make, etc etc. Ive tried alsorts that I can think it would need and still get the same error, Please help.

Code:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to create a ustar tar archive... gnutar
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 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 ISO C89... unsupported
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/i586-suse-linux/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 recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: in `/home/eclectic/transmission-1.61':
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

jdkaye · 05-30-2009, 10:08 AM

You need to have the g++-4.x package installed. (4.1 or 4.2 or 4.3 or 4.4 or whatever)
cheers,
jdk

Eclectic · 05-30-2009, 10:33 AM

Thanks for the reply. Im sure I have the SuSe version of g++, atleast according to their forums gcc-c++ is just that.

http://bayimg.com/image/oaabkaacf.jpg
I had already installed that in the hunt to get it working :/

Also:

Quote:

$ which g++
/usr/bin/g++

$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc

Edit: Im also googling to try resolve the issue, here's something I found, which could be un-earth something to someone with the right eye.

grep "Configured with" config.log

Quote:

Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-checking=release --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.3 --enable-ssp --disable-libssp --with-bugurl=http://bugs.opensuse.org/ --with-pkgversion='SUSE Linux' --disable-libgcj --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --disable-libstdcxx-pch --program-suffix=-4.3 --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-linux-futex --without-system-libunwind --with-cpu=generic --build=i586-suse-linux

Edit2:

Reinstalling glibc-devel-2.8-14.2 seems to have resolved the issue.

Thanks for your help jdkaye

jdkaye · 05-30-2009, 01:28 PM

Well that package is supposed to supply the cc1plus. If you don't have that it causes the sanity check failure. Mine is located here:
/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3/cc1plus
cheers,
jdk