"error 2" al instalar en linux

saludos a todos,tengo una problema,me he bajado pidgin,,lo he descomprimido,y he puesto en shell :

# cd /la carpeta descompr.
# ./configure
me pide "make"

# make
y me sale esto :
-g -g -O2 -MT buddyicon.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/buddyicon.Tpo -c -o buddyicon.lo buddyicon.c
buddyicon.c: In function `purple_buddy_icon_create':
buddyicon.c:238: error: implicit declaration of function `g_slice_new'
buddyicon.c:238: warning: nested extern declaration of `g_slice_new'
buddyicon.c:238: error: syntax error before "PurpleBuddyIcon"
buddyicon.c: In function `purple_buddy_icon_unref':
buddyicon.c:320: error: implicit declaration of function `g_slice_free'
buddyicon.c:320: warning: nested extern declaration of `g_slice_free'
buddyicon.c:320: error: syntax error before "PurpleBuddyIcon"
make[4]: *** [buddyicon.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0/libpurple'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0/libpurple'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0/libpurple'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2

pongo #make check y sale el mismo Error 2

All 0 tests passed
==================
make[4]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0/libpurple/tests'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0/libpurple/tests'
Making check in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0/libpurple'
/bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DBR_PTHREADS=0 -DD ATADIR=\"/usr/local/share\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/purple-2/\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale \" -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\" -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -Wall -Waggregate-return -Wcast-align -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -Werror-implicit-functio n-declaration -Wextra -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused-parameter -Winit-self -Wmissing-declarations -Wmiss ing-noreturn -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -g -O2 -MT buddyicon.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/buddyicon.Tpo -c -o buddyicon.lo buddyicon.c
buddyicon.c: In function `purple_buddy_icon_create':
buddyicon.c:238: error: implicit declaration of function `g_slice_new'
buddyicon.c:238: warning: nested extern declaration of `g_slice_new'
buddyicon.c:238: error: syntax error before "PurpleBuddyIcon"
buddyicon.c: In function `purple_buddy_icon_unref':
buddyicon.c:320: error: implicit declaration of function `g_slice_free'
buddyicon.c:320: warning: nested extern declaration of `g_slice_free'
buddyicon.c:320: error: syntax error before "PurpleBuddyIcon"
make[3]: *** [buddyicon.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0/libpurple'
make[2]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0/libpurple'
make[1]: *** [check] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/pidgin-2.4.0/libpurple'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

por que sale esto,no tengo gcc espero que me exareis un cable

saludos y gracias