Ubuntu and Fluxbox compilation

[Thom May]

* Johan Kohler (kohlerj at webmail.co.za) wrote :
> Hi,
> This is not meant as an insult to the ubuntu team, but has
> anyone succeeded in compiling fluxbox 0.9.10?  I was quite
> distraught that ./configure told me there is no gcc
> installed!  So I apt-got gcc (version 3.3), but now I get
> the following warnings/errors:  
> 
> >>configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or
> missing
> Should I care?
> 
> >>checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... failed
> >>checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> >>configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails
> sanity check
> 
> How could I resolve this?
> 
apt-get install build-essential
Cheers,
-Thom
-- 
That sounds like a lot of work... Can we out source?
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