I've always ignored that message until I've gotten a stable system up
and running.

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:23:40 +0100, "Michael Lorke" <mlorke@web.de>
wrote:

>Hi!
>I'm trying to install Gentoo on my laptop.
>After the first emerge sync it tells me to update
>portage. OK,
>
>cdImage/# emerge portage
>
>After some time it stops while checking the compiler
>for the ncurses-5.3-r2 package with
>
>configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
>
>
>Do anyone know how to fix this??
>
>
>regards,
>Michael