./configure errors, cc not found

[sunwukong]

how come when i ./configure i get

checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

what's a cc and why don't i have it?

[bwkaz]

cc is the C compiler. Install your distro's development packages. :)

(and yes, I'm assuming you got this error configuring Alsa, but that's not important.)

[sunwukong]

got that part, thanks.

now i'm stuck on trying to modprobe everything
modprobe snd-via82xx;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

but it's not picking up any of those modules