----- Original Message ----- From: "Hynek Hanke" <hanke@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> John Heim said: >> I have downloaded and unzipped the latest speechd-up code. But when I >> run >> the configure script, I get an error. I cut and pasted the output from >> my >> session below. Note that I cut a lot of lines out of the middle for the >> sake >> of vrevity. At the end it says cpp failed the sanity check. There >> doesn't >> seem to be any useful information in the log. > > Hi John, > > I think either cpp is completely missing on your system or you are using > some very old version. Please upgrade cpp and try again. > Well, cpp is part of gcc, right? I just did a apt-get dist-upgrade a couple of weeks ago. I should be using the current debian/testing. Just to be sure, I did an 'apt-get install cpp'. That upgraded my cpp to 4.1.2 # cpp --version cpp (GCC) 4.1.2 20060901 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-13) Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. But the configure script still gives me the exact same error.