When installing memcached I receive 'configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH'

Question

When trying to install memcached on linux download the server from http://memcached.org/ I then extracted the .gz file to a dir. But when I try to install the application using the command :

./configure

I receive this error :

    checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
    checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
    checking whether build environment is sane... yes
    checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
    checking for gawk... gawk
    checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
    checking for gcc... no
    checking for cc... no
    checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/home/myDir/memcached/memcached-1.4.17':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

So I downloaded the C compiler from ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-4.8.2/ and once extracted I set my path to gcc-4.8.2/gcc but I receive same error.

Am I installing / setting the C compiler path correctly ?

Answer 1

To install GCC is easy as command: yum install gcc

Go unix! :)