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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 ii autoconf 2.57-11 automatic configure script builder ii gcc 3.3.1-2 The GNU C compiler. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
