RedHat 6.0 and hostname and C compiler

[David Christian <dchristian@macalester.edu>]

Okay, I'm having all sorts of problems now :(

I was looking to use CVS to do both gnome and enlightenment (please, no
messages about how either of these suck).  To this end, I am trying to do
a fresh install, and I did not install imlib, gtk+, glib, or any
gnome-* RPMs.

Unfortunately, this seems to break X (which shouldn't rely on any of
those, should it?) as well as gcc, which a configure script says now can't
create executables, as well as the ability for a configure script to tell
what my host system type is.

????????????????????

I have no idea what to do about any of these problems--I can specify
--host=i686 for the host system problem (but I shouldn't have to!), but I
have no idea what's wrong with my compiler, and why it can't create
executables.  Without the ability to compile things, I can't even begin to
fix any other problems...

Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.

BTW, I looked at OSS and they do have support for my sound card, but I
also had a soundblaster 16 lying around and an extra slot, so for now I'm
just going to do that.

Thanks,
Dave