Kannel sms/wap gateway on RedHat9?

Hi

I'm new to Linuxista/Unix, but liked to install the Kannel sms/wap
gateway (gateway-1.3.1.tar.gz) on RedHat9.

Found out from Internet that it should be possible with ./configure
--disable-ssl

Have tried for 3 days without succes. Here's the situation at the
moment:

Logged in as root.
RH9 is fully updated yesterday.
Kannel (gateway-1.3.1.tar.gz ) exist in /root

Commands done succesfully:
tar xvzf gateway-1.3.1.tar.gz
cd gateway-1.3.1

Command ./configure --disable-ssl caused problem:
Configuring for Kannel gateway version 1.3.1 ...
Running system checks ...
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

Command locate gcc returns:
/usr/bin/gcc296
/usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux7-gcc
/usr/lib/gcc-lib
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/tradcpp0
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.2/cpp0
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/collect2
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/cc1
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/crtbegin.o
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/cpp0
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/iso646.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/README
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/float.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/limits.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/proto.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/stdarg.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/stdbool.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/stddef.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/syslimits.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/varargs.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/cxxabi.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/exception
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/new
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/new.h
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/include/typeinfo
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/crtbeginS.o
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/crtend.o
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/crtendS.o
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/libstdc++.so
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/libgcc.a
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/specs
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/tradcpp0
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/cc1plus
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/libstdc++.a
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/wchar-stdc++
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/wchar-stdc++/libstdc++-2.10.0-wchar-stub.so
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/wchar-stdc++/libstdc++.so
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96/libstdc++-2.10.0-stub.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libcppuhelper3gcc3.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libgcc3_uno.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsalhelper3gcc3.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libstlport_gcc.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libucbhelper1gcc3.so
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvos2gcc3.so
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/ChangeLog.CPP
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/ChangeLog.0
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/ChangeLog.1
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/ChangeLog.2
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/ChangeLog.3
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.Portability
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/ChangeLog.lib
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/FSFChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/FSFChangeLog.10
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/FSFChangeLog.11
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README-bugs
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README-fixinc
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.ACORN
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.ALTOS
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.APOLLO
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.AVR
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.C4X
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.DWARF
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.FRESCO
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.NS32K
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.RS6000
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.TRAD
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.X11
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-7.3/README.gnat
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-c++-7.3
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-c++-7.3/ChangeLog.egcs
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-c++-7.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-c++-7.3/ChangeLog.1
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc-c++-7.3/ChangeLog.2
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/CMap/HKgccs-B5-H
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/CMap/HKgccs-B5-V
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/ac14/CMap/HKgccs-B5-H
/usr/share/ghostscript/Resource/ac14/CMap/HKgccs-B5-V
/usr/share/xpdf/chinese-traditional/CMap/HKgccs-B5-H
/usr/share/xpdf/chinese-traditional/CMap/HKgccs-B5-V
/lib/libgcc_s-3.2.2-20030225.so.1
/lib/libgcc_s.so.1


Command echo $PATH returns:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin

Questions:
1. Is something missing from $PATH (no acceptable cc found in $PATH)
but is installed (/usr/bin/gcc296?)?

2. If so, how can it be added into $PATH?
Have tried
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/bin/i386-redhat-linux7-gcc:/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96-gcc:/usr/lib
but after reboot $PATH is unaltered. Why?

3. Is there something else I should know to get Kannel installed?

I sended this message to comp.os.linux.redhat,
comp.os.linux.questions, comp.os.linux.admin, comp.os.linux.misc
because I didn't know where it belongs to. I hope you don't mind.

Thanks in advance
Rauski
rauno.arramo@pp.nic.fi