Build problem with gcc 3.4 on Mac OS X

[Jim Wilson]

Davide Angelocola wrote:
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> $ grep cpp gcc/config.log
> /Users/davang/gcc-3.4.0/gcc/configure: line 1: /lib/cpp: No such file or 
> directory
> configure:2814: /lib/cpp  conftest.c

If you look at the gcc/config.log file instead of grepping it, you 
should see some useful info that might explain the failure.

configure will try "$CC -E" first, if this doesn't work, then I might 
wonder if something is wrong with the value of CC in your environment.

I don't know why /lib/cpp would be used unless perhaps you have the CPP 
environment variable set to it, but then that begs the question of why 
that environment variable is set.  It should not be set normally.

> $ CPP="/usr/bin/cpp" make

You may need to delete some config.cache files, and it is probably 
better to rerun configure than run make.  Actually, it is probably best 
to rm -rf your entire build tree and try again, just to make sure you 
are getting a clean build.

I would suggest trying CPP="cc -E", or whatever $CC is set to instead of 
using /usr/bin/cpp directly.  Or better yet, just set it to an empty 
string, and let configure determine which program to use as the C 
preprocessor.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com