Configure Failed need red hat install help

[Florian Weimer]

Cindy Walsh <cwalsh@massed.net> writes:

> > > 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.

That's astonishingly incompetent.

> 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?

Do yourself a favor and compile GnuPG on another machine---and link it
statically, if the hosting company's admins don't provide reasonable
libraries. :-/