[Maria-discuss] Help with RPM src build

I have gone over every document concerning building mariadb using src rpm. I am trying to build mariadb against RHEL 6. I have run rpmbuild against the src rpm and I get this error everytime: error: configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables The instructions, I have to admit, are not very good about building using the source rpm. If there is anyone who has a better howto, I would really appreciate it. Thanks! Brent