KDE 3 problems

[Rob Brandt]

Hi.  I'm doing a new YDL installation and have decided to install KDE3 
right from the start.

Following the directions linked on the YDL home page, I did a 'successful' 
installation via RPM.  But when I try to log in, I get an error that the 
control panel has crashed.  Specifically:

The application KDE Control Panel (kicker) has crashed and caused the 
signal 4 (SIGLL)

Any idea how to deal with this?

In addition, once I have it installed I would like to use the new 'liquid' 
theme, also linked to on the YDL home page.  I've downloaded the source, 
and when trying to do ./configure, I get the following:

...
Checking for working makeinfo ... missing
Checking for gcc ... gcc
Checking for C compiler default output ... configure: error: C Compiler 
cannot create executables.


What's wrong?  I don't do this type of stuff too often, but makeinfo seems 
familiar.  I've looked for a package to install it but can't see anything 
obvious.  Make is installed.  So is gcc.

Help?

Rob