[ale] Problem with hplip installation

[Scott Castaline]

I am attempting to reinstall my HP PSC2610v. I downloaded the source 
code from http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ and after several installs 
for gcc, cpp, and g++ (all related to version 2.95) was able to run 
./configure --prefix=/usr as far as I know completely. At least it 
didn't report any errors. Now when I do make I get the following:

Making all in prnt/hpijs
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/scott/Downloads/hplip-0.9.2/prnt/hpijs'
source='hpijs.cpp' object='hpijs.o' libtool=no \
DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/sh ./../../depcomp \
g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"\" 
-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"hpijs\" 
-DVERSION=\"2.1.2\" -DHAVE_LIBJPEG=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 
-DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 
-DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 
-DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_FCNTL_H=1 
-DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_SYSLOG_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 
-DVERSION=\"2.1.2\" -DHAVE_STRTOD=1 -DHAVE_STRTOL=1 -DHAVE_LIBM=1  -I. 
-I.     -DAPDK_LITTLE_ENDIAN -DAPDK_DJ660 -DAPDK_DJ6xx -DAPDK_DJ6xxPhoto 
-DAPDK_DJ8xx -DAPDK_DJ9xx -DAPDK_DJ9xxVIP -DAPDK_DJ630 -DAPDK_APOLLO2XXX 
-DAPDK_APOLLO21XX -DAPDK_APOLLO2560 -DAPDK_DJ600 -DAPDK_DJ350 
-DAPDK_DJ8x5 -DAPDK_PSP100 -DAPDK_AUTODUPLEX -DAPDK_HIGH_RES_MODES 
-DAPDK_LJMONO -DAPDK_DJ540 -DAPDK_DJ850 -DAPDK_DJ890 -DAPDK_DJ3320 
-DAPDK_LJCOLOR -DAPDK_DJGENERICVIP -DAPDK_LJJETREADY  
-DAPDK_LJFASTRASTER -DAPDK_BUFFER_SEND -DAPDK_LDL_COMPRESS 
-DAPDK_EXTENDED_MEDIASIZE -DAPDK_MLC_PRINTER -DAPDK_DJ3600 -DAPDK_LINUX 
-DAPDK_AUTO_INCLUDE -c -o hpijs.o hpijs.cpp
./../../depcomp: line 504: exec: g++: not found
make[1]: *** [hpijs.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/scott/Downloads/hplip-0.9.2/prnt/hpijs'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

what is happening?