On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 16:25:39 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > [I'm not subscribed to debian-gcc] > > 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. > Subject: configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo "#include <stdio.h>" > foo.cc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /lib/cpp foo.cc > cpp: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory You're trying to preprocess C++ code without having the C++ compiler (and presumably header files) installed. That's a highly a-typical scenario and one in which you wouldn't get very far even if cpp were modified to deal with cc1plus not being available when preprocessing C++ code. Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
