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jason

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2003-01-13

Posts: 102

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

I'm getting an error:

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

For several things, mainly svn of gaim, gaim-encryption, but I haven't tried others.  Any clue what this has to do with?

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails

try reinstalling the new gcc. If that doesn't work, build it from abs using makepkg. If it fails to build, reinstall the old version then try again.

jason

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2003-01-13

Posts: 102

Re: configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails

Already tried to reinstall gcc, it didn't help.  It isn't from abs so i can't reinstall it from there.  Any other ideas?

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails

pacman -Sy kernel-headers

should solve it.

jason

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2003-01-13

Posts: 102

Re: configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails

pacman -Sy kernel-headers

should solve it.

Awesome, thank you, works great now.  Can I ask how you knew that it was the kernel-headers?

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails

Courtesy of JGC.

Searched the forums for /lib/cpp fails sanity check

Invariably, someone else has already encountered most of the common problems and documents them here.  Alternatively there's IRC.

kozaki

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From: London >. < Paris

Registered: 2005-06-13

Posts: 673

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Re: configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails

Same issue in this location
Reinstalling kernel-headers-2.6.12 worked fine in this location.
As I had  kernel-headers installed I didn"t think first about this issue beeing solved when reinstalling it

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n0gabor

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From: Hungary / Budapest

Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 95

Re: configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails

i tried to install sabbu and subtitleeditor with abs/aur, and both stopped at configure.
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

tried to reinstall kernel-headers-2.6.18-3 and gcc-4.1.1-3 ...no luck.
(tried to remove them from cache then reinstall...still got the error msg)

solarwind

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From: Toronto

Registered: 2008-03-18

Posts: 546

Re: configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails

pacman -Sy kernel-headers works for me as well! That's really odd, I'm going to look into this problem...