Thanks for your response Rick That's what the problem was - it was looking for GCC-C++ I installed it and the ./configure script ran successfully.
Thanks again NeilB -----Original Message----- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 July 2005 00:32 To: toaster@shupp.org Subject: Re: [toaster] Error when running ./configure Courier-IMAP to Install what could be wrong Neil Barlow (DCU) wrote: >Hi > >This is my first post to this mail list, so any help you can provide would >be very much appreciated. > >I am trying to the install the Qmail Toaster on Mandrake 10.1 Community >Dist. But when I attempt to install Courier-IMAP v. 3.0.8 and run the >./configure. > >Please the see the error below from when I run it: > >checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp >configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See >`config.log' for more details. >configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for maildir >[EMAIL PROTECTED] courier-imap-3.0.8]$ > >I have checked out the config.log file located in >/var/src/courier-imap-3.0.8/config.log and it has the following entries: > >d5 sha1 random128 liblock maildir makedat libhmac userdb authlib >waitlib >tcpd imap' >sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc' >target_alias='' >userdb='/etc/userdb' > >configure: exit 1 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] courier-imap-3.0.8]# > >Any assistance that anyonce can provide would be really appreciated as I >have to have this server up and running by this evening. > > Hi, No real idea, but is the c++ compiler installed ? Regards, Rick