I am attempting to build CommonC++ 1.5.0 with Cygwin, the steps I am using are as follows:
1) tar xvzf commonc++-1.5.0.tar.gz
creates a CommonC++-1.5.0 directory
2) cd CommonC++-1.5.0
3) ./configure
$ ./configure
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checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... c++ -E
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