Tim Matthews wrote:

> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> See `config.log' for more details.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Do I need to apt-get install yet something more?
> 
> On Slackware, I didn't have this problem.

I do not think I encountered this problem on Debian. Almost every time
I had config/build problems they were caused by some missing header file,
a missing static library or a missing link for the longer name
(.so.X.Y) of a shared library.
Those types of files seem to be included in the *-dev packages.

Without a look at `config.log' it is hard for me to say what the
particular problem might be.

ciao
     Klaus