Compile error on Gutsy

[Markus Schönhaber]

Wayne Chandler wrote:

> I'm running Gutsy and trying to install a few packages.  When doing the
> ./configure on any of the packages, I get the following error:
> 
> <snip>
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
> checking dependency style of g++... none
> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
> See `config.log' for more details.
> <snip>

Install build-essential.

Regards
  mks