22636 – ncurses looks for cpp when configuring

Bug 22636 - ncurses looks for cpp when configuring

Summary: ncurses looks for cpp when configuring

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	PPC Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	PPC Porters

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Reported:	2003-06-11 13:47 UTC by zedwards
Modified:	2006-02-04 06:03 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description zedwards 2003-06-11 13:47:14 UTC

When I emerge ncurses, the configure fails with:
error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

I have /lib/cpp and can run cpp --help

I am starting a stage 1 build. I did a emerge sync, then I was going to update portage, 
hence it got stuck on ncurses.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. after emerge sync I 
2. emerge portage 
3. ncurses begins config
4. config fails as stated above. 

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



From the config.log:
configure:9330: result: /lib/cpp
configure:9345: /lib/cpp  -DNDEBUG -D_GNU_SOURCE conftest.cc
cpp: conftest.cc: C++ compiler not installed on this system
configure:9351: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:

Comment 1 Luca Barbato gentoo-dev

2003-06-28 17:12:33 UTC

please emerge again your gcc

Comment 2 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-07-14 15:27:30 UTC

I cannot reproduce this problem.

Comment 3 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-30 12:24:05 UTC

db issue