Re: [Sheflug] Software Fails to Build

[Mike Preston - Technomonk Industries <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Try

apt-get install build-essential

then retry...

Mike

Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hello there
> 
> This is probably only a simple thing but a search with Google isn't 
> providing any answers.  I've tried to build several applications from 
> source code and every time I get the error message that you can see 
> below.  Debian Etch stable.  apt-cache search (for packages) doesn't 
> reveal any answers.  The config.log doesn't help much either...........
> 
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
> checking whether gpp accepts -g... no
> checking dependency style of gpp... none
> checking whether gpp supports -Wundef... no
> checking whether gpp supports -Wno-long-long... no
> checking whether gpp supports -Wnon-virtual-dtor... no
> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> See `config.log' for more details.
> 
> 
> What should I install to get round this error ?
> 
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
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