Error when installing eggdrop

[SonnyZA]

hello there,

I tried to install eggdrop and after runing the ./configure I got this on the last line:

"configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details."

Under config.log" there is a lot of things that dont make sense to me. Don't know if it is needed to paste here. What am I doing wrong and can I fix this?

Much thanx

SonnyZA

South-Africa

[demond]

contact your shell admin and let them know you can't compile software, they are responsible for making sure these kinds of errors don't happen

[SonnyZA]

contact your shell admin and let them know you can't compile software, they are responsible for making sure these kinds of errors don't happen

thing is, I'm a reseller and I sell webspace *cough* and i sellthe webspace with the shell included. So maybe i must let my host know about this whhere i rent my server from. I just thought I did something wrong. I don't know much of compiling these bots.

Thanx

[Alchera]

My understanding is that the person hiring the box is the one that installs all that is needed. That being the case, and with a good knowledge of *BSD or *nix (whichever you've installed), you should have all the appropriate 'bits' needed i.e. gcc, tcl/tlk etc.

Tcl/tlk Dependencies

[SonnyZA]

Well, I won't say I hire the whole box, but part thereof. I actually rent a piece of the server together with other people. So I don't have root access.

And I am a newbie in the matters of Linux and these bots. If anyone could get an eggdrop bot runing for me...........well.......I'll be glad to exchange the favour with free webspace and bandwidth

[demond]

so, what does the config.log say?

[SonnyZA]

Here is the full wording I get:

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./config.log: line 1: This: command not found
./config.log: line 2: running: command not found
./config.log: line 4: It: command not found
./config.log: line 5: generated: command not found
./config.log: line 7: $: command not found
hostname: you must be root to change the host name
Try `uname --help' for more information.
Try `uname --help' for more information.
Try `uname --help' for more information.
Try `uname --help' for more information.
./config.log: line 19: /usr/bin/uname: No such file or directory
/bin/uname: invalid option -- X
Try `/bin/uname --help' for more information.
i686
./config.log: line 23: /usr/bin/arch: No such file or directory
./config.log: line 24: /usr/convex/getsysinfo: No such file or directory
./config.log: line 25: hostinfo: command not found
./config.log: line 26: /bin/machine: No such file or directory
./config.log: line 27: /usr/bin/oslevel: No such file or directory
./config.log: line 28: /bin/universe: No such file or directory
./config.log: line 30: PATH:: command not found
./config.log: line 31: PATH:: command not found
./config.log: line 32: PATH:: command not found
./config.log: line 33: PATH:: command not found
./config.log: line 34: PATH:: command not found
./config.log: line 41: configure:1359:: command not found
./config.log: line 42: configure:1361:: command not found
./config.log: line 44: configure:1365:: command not found
./config.log: line 45: configure:1367:: command not found
./config.log: line 46: configure:1444:: command not found
./config.log: line 47: configure:1460:: command not found
./config.log: line 48: configure:1470:: command not found
./config.log: line 49: configure:1714:: command not found
./config.log: line 50: 5: Bad file descriptor
./config.log: line 51: syntax error near unexpected token `GCC'
./config.log: line 51: `gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-52)'
-jailshell-2.05b$

There you go.

[demond]

hmm are you in so-called jail(1) environment of FreeBSD? you can't run eggdrop from FreeBSD jail (at least not without tweaks that you most likely cannot do yourself)

what's your operating system? try uname -a

[SonnyZA]

As far as i know, I'm on redhat linux.

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Linux ********* 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL #1 Tue May 17 18:01:37 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[demond]

your configure script might be corrupted/broken; try starting over - remove the build dir and eggdrop tarball (the .tar.gz file), download it again, untar, cd and run ./configure --help; if that works, run ./configure

[SonnyZA]

Ok I'll do and I'll report back..thanks so far