error: C preprocessor "/usr/local/bin/cpp" fails sanity check - linux

Question

I'm trying to install freetype 2.8, unfortunately I started getting this error everytime I run the configure file I run into this issue: error: C preprocessor "/usr/local/bin/cpp" fails sanity check
I tried some solutions I found on the site but they didn't solve my problem, maybe you can.
I'll paste here the configure.log file:
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$ ./configure
## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##
hostname = ubuntu
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 4.10.0-38-generic
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10 16:32:20 UTC 2017
/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown
/bin/arch = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown
PATH: /home/tabi/bin
PATH: /home/tabi/.local/bin
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/games
PATH: /usr/local/games
PATH: /snap/bin
configure:2934: $? = 0
configure:2923: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
Thread model: posix
gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)
configure:2934: $? = 0
configure:2923: gcc -V >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:2934: $? = 1
configure:2923: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:2934: $? = 1
configure:2954: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:2976: gcc conftest.c >&5
configure:2980: $? = 0
configure:3028: result: yes
configure:3031: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3033: result: a.out
configure:3039: checking for suffix of executables
configure:3046: gcc -o conftest conftest.c >&5
configure:3050: $? = 0
configure:3072: result:
configure:3094: checking whether we are cross compiling
configure:3102: gcc -o conftest conftest.c >&5
configure:3106: $? = 0
configure:3113: ./conftest
configure:3117: $? = 0
configure:3132: result: no
configure:3137: checking for suffix of object files
configure:3159: gcc -c conftest.c >&5
configure:3163: $? = 0
configure:3184: result: o
configure:3188: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler
configure:3207: gcc -c conftest.c >&5
configure:3207: $? = 0
configure:3216: result: yes
configure:3225: checking whether gcc accepts -g
configure:3245: gcc -c -g conftest.c >&5
configure:3245: $? = 0
configure:3286: result: yes
configure:3303: checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89
configure:3366: gcc -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5
configure:3366: $? = 0
configure:3379: result: none needed
configure:3404: checking how to run the C preprocessor
configure:3474: result: /usr/local/bin/cpp
configure:3494: /usr/local/bin/cpp conftest.c
./configure: line 1609: /usr/local/bin/cpp: No such file or directory
configure:3494: $? = 127
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "FreeType"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "freetype"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.8"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "FreeType 2.8"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "freetype#nongnu.org"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| /* end confdefs.h. */
| #ifdef __STDC__
| # include <limits.h>
| #else
| # include <assert.h>
| #endif
| Syntax error
configure:3494: /usr/local/bin/cpp conftest.c
./configure: line 1609: /usr/local/bin/cpp: No such file or directory
configure:3494: $? = 127
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "FreeType"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "freetype"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.8"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "FreeType 2.8"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "freetype#nongnu.org"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| /* end confdefs.h. */
| #ifdef __STDC__
| # include <limits.h>
| #else
| # include <assert.h>
| #endif
| Syntax error
configure:3524: error: in `/home/tabi/Downloads/freetype-2.8/builds/unix':
configure:3526: error: C preprocessor "/usr/local/bin/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details
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