/lib/cpp fails sanity check when trying ./configure everything

[petgraveyard]

EVERY time I try to do a ./configure....ON ANYTHING....to make a makefile....it fails!

Konsole:
...
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking whether g++ supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... no
checking whether gcc supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... yes
checking whether g++ supports -Wundef... no
checking whether g++ supports -Wno-long-long... no
checking whether g++ supports -Wnon-virtual-dtor... no
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

What? What's the deal with that? I can't install any software from source without C++! Geesh!

[Fenyx]

Re: /lib/cpp fails sanity check when trying ./configure everything

Please install the build-essential package. This will install the compiler and other basic packages needed to compile from source code.

[petgraveyard]

Re: /lib/cpp fails sanity check when trying ./configure everything

Alright, well, installing build-essential got me further in the ./configure process (I'm compiling QTcurve from source).

HOWEVER, I can't get past this part:

checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X libraries. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!

I know I have X, assuming that's the X windowing system. Is there anything that would be wrong with that? How do I add the right paths for X?

[petgraveyard]

Re: /lib/cpp fails sanity check when trying ./configure everything

Alright, scratch that, I figured that one out on my own as well. However, now it says I'm missing QT! I looked to try and install QT and...woah...which one of those do I install? There are like 100000000 packages for QT? Confused, please help!

[Fenyx]

Re: /lib/cpp fails sanity check when trying ./configure everything

Install libqt3-mt-dev

You might want to download the .deb package from here: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=40920