Error run configure in Ubuntu 8.10

When i compile the scim-1.4.7 package in Ubuntu 8.10, it report error as below, please help checked it, thanks!

root@michael-desktop:/home/michael/work/scim-1.4.7# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... no
checking for gmsgfmt... :
checking for xgettext... no
checking for msgmerge... no
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for signed... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for off_t... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for long long... yes
checking for long double... yes
checking for wchar_t... yes
checking for wint_t... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for intmax_t... yes
checking whether printf() supports POSIX/XSI format strings... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU C Library 2.1 or newer... yes
checking whether integer division by zero raises SIGFPE... yes
checking for unsigned long long... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking whether the inttypes.h PRIxNN macros are broken... no
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for SIZE_MAX... yes
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for ptrdiff_t... yes
checking argz.h usability... yes
checking argz.h presence... yes
checking for argz.h... yes
checking limits.h usability... yes
checking limits.h presence... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking nl_types.h usability... yes
checking nl_types.h presence... yes
checking for nl_types.h... yes
checking malloc.h usability... yes
checking malloc.h presence... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking stddef.h usability... yes
checking stddef.h presence... yes
checking for stddef.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/param.h usability... yes
checking sys/param.h presence... yes
checking for sys/param.h... yes
checking for asprintf... yes
checking for fwprintf... yes
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for getegid... yes
checking for geteuid... yes
checking for getgid... yes
checking for getuid... yes
checking for mempcpy... yes
checking for munmap... yes
checking for putenv... yes
checking for setenv... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for snprintf... yes
checking for stpcpy... yes
checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking for strdup... yes
checking for strtoul... yes
checking for tsearch... yes
checking for wcslen... yes
checking for __argz_count... yes
checking for __argz_stringify... yes
checking for __argz_next... yes
checking for __fsetlocking... yes
checking whether _snprintf is declared... no
checking whether _snwprintf is declared... no
checking whether feof_unlocked is declared... yes
checking whether fgets_unlocked is declared... no
checking whether getc_unlocked is declared... yes
checking for iconv... yes
checking for iconv declaration...
extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking for bison... no
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking whether included gettext is requested... no
checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
checking whether to use NLS... yes
checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl.exe... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking for g77... no
checking for f77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for cf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for f90... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for pghpf... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking for g95... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for ifort... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for ftn... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking for shl_load... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... no
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for library containing opendir... none required
checking which extension is used for loadable modules... .so
checking which variable specifies run-time library path... LD_LIBRARY_PATH
checking for the default library search path... /lib /usr/lib /lib/i486-linux-gnu /usr/lib/i486-linux-gnu /usr/lib/alsa-lib /usr/local/lib
checking for objdir... .libs
checking whether libtool supports -dlopen/-dlpreopen... yes
checking for shl_load... (cached) no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... (cached) no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes
checking for dlerror... yes
checking for _ prefix in compiled symbols... no
checking whether deplibs are loaded by dlopen... yes
checking for argz.h... (cached) yes
checking for error_t... yes
checking for argz_append... yes
checking for argz_create_sep... yes
checking for argz_insert... yes
checking for argz_next... yes
checking for argz_stringify... yes
checking assert.h usability... yes
checking assert.h presence... yes
checking for assert.h... yes
checking ctype.h usability... yes
checking ctype.h presence... yes
checking for ctype.h... yes
checking errno.h usability... yes
checking errno.h presence... yes
checking for errno.h... yes
checking for malloc.h... (cached) yes
checking for memory.h... (cached) yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking stdio.h usability... yes
checking stdio.h presence... yes
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking dl.h usability... no
checking dl.h presence... no
checking for dl.h... no
checking sys/dl.h usability... no
checking sys/dl.h presence... no
checking for sys/dl.h... no
checking dld.h usability... no
checking dld.h presence... no
checking for dld.h... no
checking mach-o/dyld.h usability... no
checking mach-o/dyld.h presence... no
checking for mach-o/dyld.h... no
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for strchr... yes
checking for strrchr... yes
checking for memcpy... yes
checking for memmove... yes
checking for strcmp... yes
checking for closedir... yes
checking for opendir... yes
checking for readdir... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) no
checking dependency style of g++... (cached) none
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for doxygen... no
checking for dot... NO
checking for dot... no
dirname: missing operand
Try `dirname --help' for more information.
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for xsltproc... /usr/bin/xsltproc
checking for /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/html/tldp-html.xsl... no
checking for /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/html/docbook.xsl... no
checking for /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/current/html/docbook.xsl... no
checking for intltool >= 0.33... 0.33 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv
checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
checking for msgmerge... msgmerge
checking for xgettext... xgettext
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... no
checking langinfo.h usability... no
checking langinfo.h presence... no
checking for langinfo.h... no
checking libintl.h usability... no
checking libintl.h presence... no
checking for libintl.h... no
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking dirent.h usability... no
checking dirent.h presence... no
checking for dirent.h... no
checking hash_map usability... no
checking hash_map presence... no
checking for hash_map... no
checking ext/hash_map usability... no
checking ext/hash_map presence... no
checking for ext/hash_map... no
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... (cached) yes
checking for inline... (cached) inline
checking for size_t... (cached) yes
checking for char... no
checking size of char... 0
checking for unsigned short int... no
checking size of unsigned short int... 0
checking for unsigned int... no
checking size of unsigned int... 0
checking for unsigned long int... no
checking size of unsigned long int... 0
checking for unsigned long long int... no
checking size of unsigned long long int... 0
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
configure: error:
*** SCIM requires
*** sizeof (unsigned short int) == 2
*** sizeof (char) == 1
*** You might want to consider using the GNU C compiler.