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First, let’s take a look at some of the errors you may encounter when running the
configure script.

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
If you receive the following error while attempting to run the configure script, you must
install the gcc compiler and its dependencies:
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
The following packages are required for gcc:
• gcc
• cpp
• glibc-headers
• glibc-devel
• glibc-kernheaders
These can be installed manually, by copying the files off of your distribution disks, or
through the yum package manager, with the command yum install gcc.

configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
The following error will be displayed if no C++ preprocessor is found installed on the
system. You must install the gcc-c++ package and its dependencies:

configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
The following packages are required for the gcc-c++ preprocessor; installed by running
yum install gcc-c++:
• gcc-c++
• libstdc++-devel

configure: error: *** termcap support not found

The following error may be encountered during initialization of the configure script if
the libtermcap-devel package is not installed:
configure: error: *** termcap support not found
The following file is required in order to compile Asterisk; it can be installed with the
yum install libtermcap-devel command:
• libtermcap-devel

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