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

brianL · 10-02-2008, 10:55 AM

If you're new to Slackware, and not sure what you will need, always do a full install.

cocobear · 10-09-2008, 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wvragga

Greetings All,

this had me tearing my hair out for a while.....

The solution for me was to create 2 missing symbolic links, I got the info from the GCC install howto.

My error was that linux/limits.h did not exist .

In the dir usr/include linux should be linked to /linux/include/linux in the kernel source dir, and asm should be linked to linux/include/asm also in kernel source dir.

My commands needed were:

ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux /usr/include/linux

ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm /usr/include/asm

This assumes that you have a symbolic link in usr/src (or wherever your source is) linux that links to /linux-2.6.whatever your kernel is ;-)

Configure was looking for these links, as soon as I created them I was all good!

Respects,
Ragga ;-)

Thanks for your post, I also got the same error , my solution is :

ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/include/linux /usr/include/linux

alainscribot · 10-17-2008, 09:15 AM

Well, thanks for your advice.
My first problem was that "slackbuilds" clean up after use, including the configure.log file and leave nothing to look at. So I got something else to compile, i.e. wine-1.1.6. This generated a config.log which produced a number of lines similar to those below :

configure:3759: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h. */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "Wine"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "wine"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "1.1.6"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "Wine 1.1.6"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "wine-devel@winehq.org"
| /* end confdefs.h. */
| #ifdef __STDC__
| # include <limits.h>
| #else
| # include <assert.h>
| #endif
| Syntax error
configure:3753: gcc -E conftest.c
In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:153,
from /usr/include/limits.h:145,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.2.3/include/limits.h:1
22,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.2.3/include/syslimits.
h:7,
from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/4.2.3/include/limits.h:1
1,
from conftest.c:9:
/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: error: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory

I'm supposing a way out is to create a link concerning "limits.h" somewhere, but I'm not sure about this, what would you do?

Cheers & thanks, A

lolenchy · 04-25-2009, 07:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zip

Thank you for posting this solution.
I had the same problem.
Who would have known that cc1 is cc1plus?
This is for Debian 3.1. ./configuration for a Graphire 4 graphics tablet.

asus:/usr/bin# ln -s /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.3/cc1 cc1plus

Hi,
I had this same issue on Freebsd for months and it's now solved. If using Freebsd do:

ln -s /usr/libexec/cc1 /usr/bin/cc1plus and you should be fine.

123zacp · 05-05-2010, 02:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevenking66

Hello

Not sure if this you proiblem, but for the benefit of the world in general, you can get the same error message if you do not have the kernel-source installed. My clue was in the config.log:

configure:3620: result: /lib/cpp
configure:3644: /lib/cpp conftest.c
In file included from /usr/include/bits/posix1_lim.h:130,
from /usr/include/limits.h:144,
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/include/limits.h:122,
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/include/syslimits.h:7,
from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/include/limits.h:11,
from conftest.c:12:
/usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory

Hope this is helpful to someone

Steve

configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
i get this when i install a program that i need

help ??

amigoadkar · 12-29-2011, 04:12 AM

/usr/include/limits.h
file was empty

I was able to solve problem by creating link
ln -s /usr/include/linux/limits.h /usr/include/limits.h

Gadien · 04-11-2012, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tinkster

Have another look

gcc = C compiler
g++ = C++ compiler ...

I'm almost certain that Mandreck comes
with more than one gcc option to install.

Cheers,
Tink

Yep. solved my problem

hobbitses · 05-31-2012, 10:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by imanassypov

Dudes,

You are missing the g++ package. Just do 'apt-get install g++'.
This will definitely get you going with your /.configure

-igor

This solved my issue. And, it's the easiest solution.

flos · 03-10-2016, 02:17 AM

Thanks, Tinkster, your explanation of gcc versus g++ helped me, too.
Flos

dedec0 · 11-09-2017, 07:34 AM

Today, in some machine, I came accross the same problem. As this thread started several years back, I decided to make this post, that can eventually be useful to people - like this thread was to me, right now.

Some comments seem wrong (at least compared to my solution) or - possibly - just different, because they are old enough.

OS:
Debian 9 (just to mention, the name which I never remember and prefer not to use is: Debian Stretch)
Linux debian 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 (2017-06-26) x86_64

Problem: ./configure 'ing a project (which should not matter much for the issue, as long it is/contains c++) the following error happens:

Code:

$ ./configure

[[[[[ there are several lines before the following one,
but I removed them here, should not matter ]]]]]

configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

The installed package that solved the issue is 'g++'.

'/var/log/apt/history.log' last lines are:

Code:

Start-Date: 2017-11-09  10:53:47
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Requested-By: u ( [[[uid number]]] )
Install: g++:amd64 (4:6.3.0-4), g++-6:amd64 (6.3.0-18, automatic),
         libstdc++-6-dev:amd64 (6.3.0-18, automatic)
End-Date: 2017-11-09  10:53:48

Now I am into the next step for that source. (: