FC3 & irssi install probs

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Mike Hoy wrote:
> I'm installing irssi, a text only IRC chat program on Fedora Core 3.
> 
> The INSTALL file says that it needs Glib and my system has it.
> 
> The instructions say to:
> 
> untar it and the cd to the irssi*** directory.
> 
> then ./configure

[snip]

> checking for gcc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cc... no
> checking for cl... no
> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
> See `config.log' for more details.

What instructions don't say, because it is assumed, is that if you want 
to compile anything, you need to have compiler install.  Install gcc 
package(s) *and* development libraries (if you don't have compiler 
installed, chances are you don't have devel packages installed either).

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