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Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:40:38 +0200
From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@....se>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Troubles with building packages

ping@...n.tebe.ru wrote:
> I have some troubles with build new packages from sources.
> System can't find C preprocessor.
> 
> For example I try to build samba-3.0.20a:
> 
> $ ./counfigure
> ...
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp                
> configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check    
> ...
> 

I had this same problem myself in May this year. Here's the posting I 
made back then (to owl-devel, which isn't archived unfortunately).

-----------
I ran into some weird errors while packaging coreutils, where its 
configure script for some obscure reason attempted to run /lib/cpp as 
the preprocessor. Adding the following lines to the %configure macro 
seems to have solved the problem (and made it embarrassingly obvious 
that I had forgotten to install the kernel-headers). The addendum is 
most likely a good idea anyways since it can prevent some problems with 
ill-behaved ./configure scripts.

%configure
   CC="${CC:-%__cc}" ; export CC ; \
   CPP="${CPP:-%__cpp}" ; export CPP ; \
   CFLAGS (and so on...)
---------------

Galaxy, Dmitry and Solar agreed that adding it to the default macros 
might be a good idea. Galaxy wanted to do some other stuff with the rpm 
package first.

-- 
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