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

Dear Friends,

I have Acer G540 Server with RHEL 4 Update 6 + Oracle 10 g Installed. Some applications required web server and i have downloaded httpd-2.2.0 and installed with the following configure option.

#configure --enable-so

I received the following error at the end...
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checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
configure failed for srclib/apr
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I have gcc-3.4.3EL4 and gcc-c++-3.4.3-9EL4 installed

#c++ -v or g++ -v gives the following result:

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.6/specs
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-checking --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-java-awt=gtk --host=i386-redhat-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)

# rpm -qa | grep c++ gives the following:

compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3
gcc-c++-3.4.6-9
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2
gcc4-c++-4.1.2-14.EL4
compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3
libstdc++-3.4.6-9
libstdc++-devel-3.4.6-9

# ls -l /lib/cpp Gives the following

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Sep 18 2008 /lib/cpp -> ../usr/bin/cpp

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Below is the entire out put of configure --enable-so command:

root|C:/usr/local/httpd-2.2.0> ./configure --enable-so

checking for chosen layout... Apache
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
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 Apache Portable Runtime library ...

checking for APR... reconfig
configuring package in srclib/apr now
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 APR library
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for working mkdir -p... yes
APR Version: 1.2.2
checking for chosen layout... apr
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 ANSI C... none needed
Applying APR hints file rules for i686-pc-linux-gnu
setting CPPFLAGS to "-DLINUX=2"
adding "-D_REENTRANT" to CPPFLAGS
adding "-D_GNU_SOURCE" to CPPFLAGS
(Default will be unix)
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
configure failed for srclib/apr
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I tried the net and our linuxQuestions.org but no particular solution for RHEL...
Kindly someone help me to solve the problem please...

Thanks & Regards,

Mohanraj.S

Ok...as root, type in "yum install apache2". Press enter. Apache will then be downloaded and installed. Is there a particular reason you're downloading/compiling from source?

Also, RedHat support can easily help you with this...you're paying for phone/web support when you purchase RedHat Enterprise. They will support anything you can ask them.

Thanks to everyone for suggessions... I have solved the problem by installing the follwoing rpms:

glibc-kernheaders
glibc-headers
glibc-common
glibc-profile
gclibc-utils
glibc
glibc-devel

Apache nicely compiled and installed without a hitch...

Once again thanks to all for suggessions...

Regards,
-Mohanraj.S

Nivix,

where from/how did you install the glibc-xxx libraries, I think I have the same problem; yum returns the same error when trying to ./configure or install (usually 3rd party packages)?