[Edbrowse-dev] Problem installing git version on debian sid

[Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>]

I am rather confused by all this.

> The error said the option -c was not recognized by the preprocessor.

Of course not.
cpp is the c preprocessor, the program that expands all the #ifdefs #includes etc.
It's basically a macro expander, very specific to C.
It doesn't know anything about the C language or compilation or objects or linkage or anything else.
It's a front end program, and you shouldn't be calling it with -c or any of the compiler options.
If you want the c++ compiler you need c++ or g++ or some such.
It's damn confusing, since c++ files end in the extension .cpp, but no, that doesn't mean you should call cpp on them.
And I don't think any of tidy is c++, so that's even more confusing.

Karl Dahlke