Configure Failed need red hat install help

[Cindy Walsh]

Florian Weimer wrote:

> Cindy Walsh <cwalsh@massed.net> writes:
>
> > The .configure failed with the messages:
> >
> >    loading cache ./config.cache
> >    ./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied
> >    ./configure: /dev/null: Permission denied
>
> And:
>
> > ls -l /dev/nu*
> > crw-r--r--   1 root     root       1,   3 May  5  1998 /dev/null
>
> You have to ask your system administrator to make /dev/null
> world-writable.  Otherwise, many programs simply won't work.

They have denied the request. Since I have several hosts placed with that
company, moving them now is not an option.

Is there any on-line documentation specifying the parameters I must
configure, and the gcc compiler options that I must provide in order to
manually compile and install gnupg? The program will ONLY be run by a Perl
script (invoked via Apache web server cgi) so I do not need man pages
on-line, etc. The Perl program will encrypt text using the public key of 2
or 3 individuals, and then send the encrypted text by e-mail. Thus, I only
need limited capability on the virtual host.

The host computer identifies itself as i386-redhat-linux egcs-2.91.66
3/4/99 egcc-1.1.2 release

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.