Install Google Protocol Buffer 2.5.0 on CentOS (configure: error: C++preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for moredetails.)

Google Protocol Buffer is platform neutral, extensible tool for serializing structure data. It is inter-operable and not specific to any language.
While installing Protocol Buffer 2.5.0 on CentOS machine got configuration error, so document it as it may be useful for others.

Step 1:Download protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2
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$ sudo wget https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v2.5.0/protobuf-2.5.0.tar.gz

--2015-09-15 11:33:14-- http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2
Resolving protobuf.googlecode.com... 2607:f8b0:400e:c04::52, 74.125.129.82
Connecting to protobuf.googlecode.com|2607:f8b0:400e:c04::52|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1866763 (1.8M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: “protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2”

100%[======================================>] 1,866,763 2.45M/s in 0.7s
2015-09-15 11:33:15 (2.45 MB/s) - “protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2” saved [1866763/1866763]
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Step 2: Expand the downloaded tar file and remove the tar file
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$ tar -xvf protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2
$ rm -rf protobuf-2.5.0.tar.bz2
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Step 3: Configure the protobuf
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$ cd protobuf-2.5.0/
$ ./configure
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There I got error
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configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details.
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Now, check if you have it the right package, links, and versions, run these commands:
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$ cpp --version
cpp (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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If output is there then cpp lack corresponding library
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$ sudo yum install glibc-headers
$ sudo yum install gcc-c++
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Now, again run configure,
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$ ./configure
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
......................
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating scripts/gtest-config
config.status: creating build-aux/config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
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Step 4: Make
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$ make
pthread -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Woverloaded-virtual -Wno-sign-compare -O2 -g -DNDEBUG -MT plugin.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/plugin.Tpo -c -o plugin.lo `test -f 'google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.cc' || echo './'`google/protobuf/compiler/plugin.cc......
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libtool: link: ranlib .libs/libprotobuf-lite.a
libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libprotobuf-lite.la" && ln -s "../libprotobuf-lite.la" "libprotobuf-lite.la" )
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/pooja/protobuf-2.5.0/src'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pooja/protobuf-2.5.0/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pooja/protobuf-2.5.0
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Step 5: Install
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$ sudo make install
Making install in .
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/pooja/protobuf-2.5.0'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/pooja/protobuf-2.5.0'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
test -z "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 protobuf.pc protobuf-lite.pc '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pooja/protobuf-2.5.0'
atomicops_internals_x86_msvc.h google/protobuf/stubs/common.h google/protobuf/stubs/platform_macros.h google/protobuf/stubs/once.h google/protobuf/stubs/template_util.h google/protobuf/stubs/type_traits.h '/usr/local/include/google/protobuf/stubs'
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make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/pooja/protobuf-2.5.0/src'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/pooja/protobuf-2.5.0/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pooja/protobuf-2.5.0/src
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Step 6: Verify protobuf installed properly
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$ protoc
Missing input file.

$ protoc --version
libprotoc 2.5.0
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Hope you installed Protocol Buffer without hassel. Feel free to write to me. Thanks.

References:
Google protobuf github
Google protocol buffer tutorial