diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 6be5d29..040a79b 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@
 ^src/cld_3/protos/.*\.pb\.h$
 ^src/Makevars$
 ^src/libcld3/.*\.a$
+^configure.log$
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fe9e99e..0b49dcc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ src/*.o
 src/cld_3/protos/*.pb.h
 src/cld_3/protos/*.pb.cc
 src/Makevars
+configure.log
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c6c03e8..8ee1386 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 Package: cld3
 Type: Package
 Title: Google's Compact Language Detector 3
-Version: 1.2
+Version: 1.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Jeroen", "Ooms", ,"jeroen@berkeley.edu", role = c("aut", "cre"),
       comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4035-0289")),
-    person("Google Inc", role = "cph", comment = "CLD3 C++ library")
-  )
+    person("Google Inc", role = "cph", comment = "CLD3 C++ library"))
 Description: Google's Compact Language Detector 3 is a neural network model for language 
     identification and the successor of 'cld2' (available from CRAN). The algorithm is still
     experimental and takes a novel approach to language detection with different properties
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fcb57c2..9d69ddb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+1.3
+  - Fix for CRAN: do not use CXXCPP
+
 1.2
   - Windows: update to protobuf 3.8.0 with support for GCC 8+
   - Suppress warnings about pragmas in autogenerated protobuf headers
diff --git a/cleanup b/cleanup
index d536050..88fef0f 100755
--- a/cleanup
+++ b/cleanup
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 for file in src/cld_3/protos/*.proto; do
   echo "#error This is a placeholder file." > ${file%.proto}.pb.cc
 done
-rm -f src/Makevars
+rm -f src/Makevars configure.log
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index ea2f39a..d4e2b91 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# Anticonf (tm) script by Jeroen Ooms (2017)
+# Anticonf (tm) script by Jeroen Ooms (2020)
 # This script will query 'pkg-config' for the required cflags and ldflags.
 # If pkg-config is unavailable or does not find the library, try setting
 # INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via e.g:
@@ -48,17 +48,17 @@ echo "Using PKG_CFLAGS=$PKG_CFLAGS"
 echo "Using PKG_LIBS=$PKG_LIBS"
 
 # Find compiler
-CXXCPP=$(${R_HOME}/bin/R CMD config CXXCPP)
+CXX=$(${R_HOME}/bin/R CMD config CXX)
 CXXFLAGS=$(${R_HOME}/bin/R CMD config CXXFLAGS)
 CPPFLAGS=$(${R_HOME}/bin/R CMD config CPPFLAGS)
 
 # Test configuration
-echo "#include $PKG_TEST_HEADER" | ${CXXCPP} ${CPPFLAGS} ${PKG_CFLAGS} ${CXXFLAGS} -xc++ - >/dev/null 2>&1
+echo "#include $PKG_TEST_HEADER" | ${CXX} -E ${CPPFLAGS} ${PKG_CFLAGS} ${CXXFLAGS} -xc++ - >/dev/null 2>configure.log
 
 # Customize the error
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-  echo "------------------------- ANTICONF ERROR ---------------------------"
-  echo "Configuration failed because $PKG_CONFIG_NAME was not found. Try installing:"
+  echo "------------------------------[ ANTICONF ]-----------------------------"
+  echo "Configuration failed to find $PKG_CONFIG_NAME. Try installing:"
   echo " * deb: $PKG_DEB_NAME (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)"
   echo " * rpm: $PKG_RPM_NAME (Fedora, EPEL)"
   echo " * csw: $PKG_CSW_NAME (Solaris)"
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   echo "PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH contains a $PKG_CONFIG_NAME.pc file. If pkg-config"
   echo "is unavailable you can set INCLUDE_DIR and LIB_DIR manually via:"
   echo "R CMD INSTALL --configure-vars='INCLUDE_DIR=... LIB_DIR=...'"
-  echo "--------------------------------------------------------------------"
-  exit 1;
+  echo "----------------------------[ ERROR MESSAGE ]----------------------------"
+  cat configure.log
+  echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+  exit 1
 fi
 
 # Write to Makevars