On 27 Aug 2010, at 22:24, Morton, John wrote:
As expected "glibc.i686" was preinstalled. I tried installing the i386 and x86_64 Red Hat rpms for "glibc-devel". Both rpms reported some unsatisfied dependencies. To make a long story short, in both cases the geometric growth of the dependency tree looks like it will eventually force all of the gcc C compiler to be installed. Maybe it's my non-C background but this hidden 3 file dependency (upon C) seems unreasonable given that all that gpc needs (see output below) is for those object files to be visible to the ld linker (assuming these object files are not dependent upon other files).
I would strongly recommend to simply install all dependencies. While things *may* work fine with just those files, they may just as well not for one reason or another. You can only make things more difficult for yourself by trying to circumvent the the dependencies of those packages.
Jonas