Error: configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

root@ubuntuserver4:/usr/local/pcre-8.01# sudo ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: in `/usr/local/pcre-8.01':
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

Solution: install GCC software suite

Method 1. Yum install GCC
method 2. Apt get install GCC

root@ubuntuserver4:~# apt-get install gcc
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  libgcc-4.8-dev libgmp10 libisl10 libitm1 libmpc3 libmpfr4 libquadmath0
  libtsan0
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  automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-4.8-multilib gcc-4.8-doc
  libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg libitm1-dbg libatomic1-dbg libasan0-dbg
  libtsan0-dbg libquadmath0-dbg
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You can execute it after installation

root@ubuntuserver4:~# cd /usr/local/pcre-8.01/
root@ubuntuserver4:/usr/local/pcre-8.01# sudo ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
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checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... no
checking dependency style of g++... none
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
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checking for unistd.h... yes
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checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 1572864
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs... yes
checking whether the shell understands "+="... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for ar... ar
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
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checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... (cached) no
checking whether g++ accepts -g... (cached) no
checking dependency style of g++... (cached) none
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking limits.h usability... yes
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checking dirent.h usability... yes
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checking windows.h usability... no
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checking string usability... no
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checking bits/type_traits.h usability... no
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checking type_traits.h presence... no
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checking for srtoq... no
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checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for size_t... yes
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checking for memmove... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking zlib.h usability... yes
checking zlib.h presence... yes
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checking bzlib.h usability... no
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating libpcre.pc
config.status: creating libpcreposix.pc
config.status: creating libpcrecpp.pc
config.status: creating pcre-config
config.status: creating pcre.h
config.status: creating pcre_stringpiece.h
config.status: creating pcrecpparg.h
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing script-chmod commands
config.status: executing delete-old-chartables commands

pcre-8.01 configuration summary:

    Install prefix .................. : /usr/local
    C preprocessor .................. : gcc -E
    C compiler ...................... : gcc
    C++ preprocessor ................ :
    C++ compiler .................... : g++
    Linker .......................... : /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64
    C preprocessor flags ............ :
    C compiler flags ................ : -O2
    C++ compiler flags .............. :
    Linker flags .................... :
    Extra libraries ................. :

    Build C++ library ............... : yes
    Enable UTF-8 support ............ : no
    Unicode properties .............. : no
    Newline char/sequence ........... : lf
    \R matches only ANYCRLF ......... : no
    EBCDIC coding ................... : no
    Rebuild char tables ............. : no
    Use stack recursion ............. : yes
    POSIX mem threshold ............. : 10
    Internal link size .............. : 2
    Match limit ..................... : 10000000
    Match limit recursion ........... : MATCH_LIMIT
    Build shared libs ............... : yes
    Build static libs ............... : yes
    Link pcregrep with libz ......... : no
    Link pcregrep with libbz2 ....... : no
    Link pcretest with libreadline .. : no