distutils does not find g++ on Fedora 20

[Brad Bell]

This problem was due to corruption of the Fedora-20 system that showed 
up when one did a
     yum check
see
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-November/204126.html

On 10/19/2014 5:00 AM, python-devel-request at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 06:32:20 -0700
> From: Brad Bell <bradbell at seanet.com>
> To: python-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: distutils does not find g++ on Fedora 20
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> I have a python setup.py script that works on Fedora-19 and does not
> work on Fedora-20.
> The error on Fedora-20 is:
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> [bradbell at localhost pycppad-20140710]$ ./setup.py build_ext --inplace
> --debug --undef NDEBUG
> running build_ext
> building 'pycppad/cppad_' extension
> C compiler: gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall
> -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong
> --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches -m64 -mtune=generic
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fwrapv -fPIC
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> compile options: '-g -UNDEBUG
> -I/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/numpy/core/include
> -I/home/bradbell/prefix/cppad/include -I/usr/include
> -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c'
> gcc: pycppad/vector.cpp
> gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory
> ...
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> Here is what I get when I check for g++:
>       [bradbell at localhost pycppad]$ g++ --version
>       g++ (GCC) 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7)
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