On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 07:12:29AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [Please cc, as I'm not subscribed to debian-gcc] > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:43:57PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > > > I posted this o debian-user a few days back. I'm wondering if cpp needs > > > to depend on g++. > > > > I see no reason to. The preprocessor typically isn't used as a stand-alone > > application. It is typically called from a compiler frontend (which has the > > appropriate dependency on cpp) and is ocassionally called to process things > > other than C(++) code, like .Xresources files, which don't need a compiler > > dependency. > > But it seems to be called with autoconf: > > $ ./configure >/dev/null > configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > See `config.log' for more details. > > My configure.in isn't requesting that check, as far as I know, so it > looks like autoconf is running that sanity check by default. > > config.log says: > > configure:4895: /lib/cpp conftest.cc > cpp: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory > configure:4901: $? = 1
Something, then, is forcing your autoconf script to C++. It won't do the CPP sanity tests with C implicitly. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
