This article deals with installing the development tools for Red hat or CentOS if they were omitted from the original buildout of the server. If you require to run "make" or build from source and can't do it as you get errors chances are you don't have the development tools installed on your linux host. So, if you aren't picky as to which tool to load you can execute the following command to get them all installed on your system:
This will pull all the packages needed remotely (about 100 MB's worth) and install them onto your system. You can review the following link for more information:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-linux-install-gcc-c-c-compiler/