configure problems again

hi, 

I tried the source file for the ayttm and got these warnings. I noticed
after this that there was X-Chat installed on the computer

[root@student4-315 other]# rpm -Uvh ayttm-0.4.6-1.src.rpm
warning: user philip does not exist - using root
warning: group philip does not exist - using root
warning: user philip does not exist - using root
warning: group philip does not exist - using root
   1:ayttm                  ###########################################
[100%]

I tried the tar file and got about the same errors.

[root@student4-315 ayttm-0.4.6]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles...
no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

Do i need a gcc compiler in my machine to compile the code?
if i do, I dont have it on my machine, but i can telnet to a remote host
which has the compiler.  How do i go about doing this?

Thank you