During several attempts to install programs (kshowmail and gimp 2.0.1) I get the following message after typing ./configure as root:

/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

I installed cpp, but it did not work
any ideas?
thanks in advance

Hmmm...try gcc-c++ or gcc-cpp.
Why are you compiling these? Are you not on Mandrake?

urpmi kshowmail
urpmi gimp-2_0

Yes I am on mandrake, However the Kshowmail version of mandrake appears to be inferior. Everytime I close the program it looses all info including account info. According to the author this seems to be a widespread problem. I have to setup accounts over and over again. In addition there is no gimp 2.0.x rpm version as yet. I've got to do that with a tar.gz file. Finally there are lots of programs that are only availlable as tar files. Using Mandrake doesn't necessarlily mean that I have to stick with (mdk) rpms, does it?
Thanks for the reply anyway

gimp2 is in the contrib folder on your favorite server. Try this:
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandra...0/contrib/i586/

No, you don't have to stick with rpm files, but it helps

I'm using kshowmail 3.0.4 with no such problems:
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/10....4-4mdk.i586.rpm

make sure you have the C++ compiler installed, g++
urpmi gcc-cpp gcc-c++

installing gcc c+ helped to make run ./configure. However 'make' is protesting now. This is what it says trying to install Kshowmail

Good - your configure finished. Start make now

[root@localhost kshowmail-3.1.0]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/knoeff/Downloads/kshowmail-3.1.0'
Making all in kshowmail
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/knoeff/Downloads/kshowmail-3.1.0/kshowmail'
if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/lib/qt3//include -I/usr/X11R6/include -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -D_REENTRANT -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -O2 -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -MT decodeRFC2047.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/decodeRFC2047.Tpo" \
-c -o decodeRFC2047.o `test -f 'decodeRFC2047.cpp' || echo './'`decodeRFC2047.cpp; \
then mv -f ".deps/decodeRFC2047.Tpo" ".deps/decodeRFC2047.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/decodeRFC2047.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
decodeRFC2047.cpp:21:28: mimelib/mimepp.h: No such file or directory
decodeRFC2047.cpp: In function `QCString decodeQuotedPrintable(const QCString&)':
decodeRFC2047.cpp:40: error: `DwString' undeclared (first use this function)
decodeRFC2047.cpp:40: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in.)
decodeRFC2047.cpp:40: error: syntax error before `(' token
decodeRFC2047.cpp:43: error: `dwsrc' undeclared (first use this function)
decodeRFC2047.cpp:43: error: `dwdest' undeclared (first use this function)
decodeRFC2047.cpp:43: error: `DwDecodeQuotedPrintable' undeclared (first use this function)
decodeRFC2047.cpp: In function `QCString decodeBase64(const QCString&)':
decodeRFC2047.cpp:54: error: syntax error before `(' token
decodeRFC2047.cpp:58: error: `DwDecodeBase64' undeclared (first use this function)
make[2]: *** [decodeRFC2047.o] Fout 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/knoeff/Downloads/kshowmail-3.1.0/kshowmail'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fout 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/knoeff/Downloads/kshowmail-3.1.0'
make: *** [all] Fout 2
[root@localhost kshowmail-3.1.0]#

But for showmail this is not really relevant anymore as the version of showmail from the begian site works fine (thanks!!)
however gimp 2 was not in the mirrorlist (unless it was under a different name).

Just a wild guess, but try this..
urpmi libmimedir

yes
is the current problem

so do
urpmf mimepp.h
and it'll tell you which devel pkg is not installed. Thyen use
urpmi name-devel
to install it.

IF urpmf mimepp.h returns nothing then the pkg is not in your sources and you can't go any further til you get it.

Gimp2:
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/linux/mandrake/devel/...1-1mdk.i586.rpm

Thanks for the url with the gimp rpm, but this is what ikpackage results in

error: Failed dependencies:
libcroco.so.2 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
libgimp-2.0.so.0 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
libgimpbase-2.0.so.0 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
libgimpcolor-2.0.so.0 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
libgimpmath-2.0.so.0 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
libgimpmodule-2.0.so.0 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
libgimpprint.so.1 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
libgimpthumb-2.0.so.0 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
libgimpui-2.0.so.0 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 is needed by gimp2_0-2.0.1-1mdk
RESULT=1

How do I get these. Is there an rpm which includes these

I showed you...take the first one, first;
urpmf libcroco.so.2
then urpmi <name> to install the needed dependency. If it doesn't return anything the it is not in your sources and you need to add sources to urpmi. There are a lot of threads about that on the board.
then continue if you get more dep errors.

the rpm in the url is cooker, unless you want to go cooker you need one that is non cooker, if I'm not mistaken.

Looks easy. However, I have none of these dependencies in my system. They are not on mdk install cd's. I have no idea where to get them. I tried some download sites, but no succces. I tried to find a usable thread, but again, no result
Any idea?
thanks in advance

Do a search for easyurpmi on this forum

Chris

I found it, used it and gimp 2 works!
Thanks