Need help- compiling

I have been trying to compile an lnx-bbc iso image from the stable CVS 
branch.
I have tried it from Redhat 7.3 and the current Debian.
Everything was going well until it got to the
gar/meta/singularity directory at which point the following error
occurs:

[jspauli@radix singularity]$ ls
checksums  CVS       files     singularity.conf.mk   work
cookies    download  Makefile  singularity-contents
[jspauli@radix singularity]$ make build
[===== NOW BUILDING:    singularity-2.1 =====]
        [fetch] complete for singularity.
        [checksum] complete for singularity.
        [extract] complete for singularity.
        [patch] complete for singularity.
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/scratch-gar/gar/meta/singularity'
 ==> Building devel/glibc as a dependency
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/scratch-gar/gar/devel/glibc'
[===== NOW BUILDING:    glibc-2.2.5     =====]
        [fetch] complete for glibc.
        [checksum] complete for glibc.
        [extract] complete for glibc.
        [patch] complete for glibc.
 ==> Running configure in work/singularity.d/glibc-2.2.5
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i386-pc-linux-gnu
checking sysdep dirs... sysdeps/i386/elf 
linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 
linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux linuxthreads/sysdeps/pthread 
sysdeps/pthread linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix 
linuxthreads/sysdeps/i386 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/common sysdeps/unix/mman 
sysdeps/unix/inet sysdeps/unix/sysv/i386 sysdeps/unix/sysv 
sysdeps/unix/i386 sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix sysdeps/i386/fpu sysdeps/i386 
sysdeps/wordsize-32 sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 
sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 sysdeps/ieee754 sysdeps/generic/elf sysdeps/generic
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for pwd... /bin/pwd
checking build system type... i386-redhat-linux-gnu
checking for i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
checking version of i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... v. ?.??, bad
checking for gnumake... no
checking for gmake... gmake
checking version of gmake... 3.79.1, ok
configure: error:
*** These critical programs are missing or too old:gcc
*** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
make[2]: *** [configure-work/singularity.d/glibc-2.2.5/configure] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/scratch-gar/gar/devel/glibc'
make[1]: *** [../../devel/glibc/cookies/singularity.d/install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/scratch-gar/gar/meta/singularity'
make: *** [imgdep-singularity] Error 2
[jspauli@radix singularity]$


I have tried the latest version of gcc and still get this error.


Any suggestions would be appreciated.