ERROR:

Recently while running “./configure” while installing a component on a Server I got following Error.

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... unsupported
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.
[root@server1 ]#

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SOLUTION:

I have checked and found that gcc and cpp modules are already installed on the server. This can be checked using command “rpm -qa | grep gcc” “rpm -qa | grep cpp“. I have searched on many websites and found that glibc-headers were not installed on the server. I have installed glibc-headers using command “yum install glibc-headers“. If you face this problem please make sure that following components are installed on the server:

1) GCC and GCC-C++

[root@server1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep gcc
gcc-c++-4.1.2-42.el5
compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-4
libgcc-4.1.2-42.el5
gcc-4.1.2-42.el5
compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-4
compat-libgcc-296-2.96-138
gcc-objc-4.1.2-42.el5
compat-gcc-34-g77-3.4.6-4
gcc-objc++-4.1.2-42.el5
[root@server1 ~]#

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2) CPP

[root@server1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep cpp
cpp-4.1.2-42.el5
[root@server1 ~]

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3) GLIBC, GLIBC-DEVEL and GLIBC-HEADERS

[root@server1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-2.5-24
glibc-headers-2.5-24
compat-glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.26
glibc-common-2.5-24
glibc-devel-2.5-24
compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26
[root@server1 ~]#

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