[Mac-emacs-users] Building Emacs 21.1 on OS X -- a VERY STUPID question

[Gottfried B. <Got...@un...>]

Hello Andrew, 

thank you for your continuous efforts of porting Emacs to the Mac. I am
very glad to hear that the Mac version is now part of the standard Emacs 
distribution. 

Having Mac OS X (a preinstalled 10.0.4 on a 2nd generation iBook) at my
disposal, I just tried to build Emacs 21 following your suggestions in the
README file at http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~akochoi/emacs/macosx/readme.txt

The first three steps worked out perfectly well, but when I tried to run
the "./configure"-command, I got the following messages

  checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin1.3.7
  checking for gcc... no  
  checking for cc... no
  configure:error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

If I understand the last message correctly, I am thus lacking the compiler
-- indeed a VERY STUPID situation that certainly is hardly conceivable for
a software developer like you. However, since there are dummies like me
trying to do such things as building Emacs on OS X, could you please give
some hints telling what exactly is needed to build Emacs 21 in Mac OS X
that does not automatically come with the pre-installed system? 

Thank you very much! Best regards, 

Gottfried Barthel