Problems compiling

[Matt]

I just recently figured out how to compile things after looking at a
good README. Anyway, I have SuSE 8.0, and I was very excited to finally
be able to install the Liquid rendering engine, or so I thought. When I
tried to do it, I got this response:

matt@linux:~> cd '/home/matt/Desktop/mosfet-liquid0.9.5'
matt@linux:~/Desktop/mosfet-liquid0.9.5> ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH
matt@linux:~/Desktop/mosfet-liquid0.9.5>

So I tried to install automake and autoconf. I think I got autoconfig to
install, but when I tried installingm automake, it came with the same
errors that Liquid had. I tried a few more applications, but all had the
same error. What should I do?