Ambiguous error from ./configure

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Wed Feb 28 13:07:00 GMT 2007


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According to Forrest Aldrich on 2/27/2007 9:31 AM:
> I've been working on building a patched version of SSH.  Using the
> standard configure, it's generating this error:
> 
> configure:4187: error: C preprocessor "gcc -E" fails sanity check

In this case, you are better off looking in config.log, not configure, for
figuring out why $ac_preproc_ok was not set to a good value.  Did you
correctly install gcc?

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

And following directions by including 'cygcheck -svr' output as a text
attachment might be helpful.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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