hi,
i'm trying to build the latest inkscape and i've ground to a halt. i've been running the configure script and sorting out any dependencies i find, but been getting a message about a "sanity check". i don't know what this means and i haven't had much luck finding out. does this mean that a package is missing or that there is something wrong with one of them?
i'd be grateful for some advice, i've included the output of the configure script.
thanks. john michaelson.
john@...1937...:~/a/software/inkscape/inkscape-20060607-0100$ ./configure checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no checking for intltool >= 0.22... 0.35.0 found checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... ok checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... none checking dependency style of gcc... none checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes checking for g++... no checking for c++... no checking for gpp... no checking for aCC... no checking for CC... no checking for cxx... no checking for cc++... no checking for cl... no checking for FCC... no checking for KCC... no checking for RCC... no checking for xlC_r... no checking for xlC... no checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no checking whether g++ accepts -g... no checking dependency style of g++... none checking for strerror in -lcposix... no checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) no checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) no checking dependency style of g++... (cached) none checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... no checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details.