./configure

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Janet Heath
<janetcatherine.heath at gmail.com> wrote:
> configure:3534: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

The configure script is used to build Python from source. To do that,
you need a C compiler (such as gcc, which it went looking for a few
lines earlier). Perhaps you want a binary distribution instead, which
doesn't require compilation.

ChrisA