Installing PDFlib on Fedora Core 4

First up I had to download the package from the pecl repository via pear

pear install pdflib
But that gave me an error sh: phpize: command not found, so I had to install phpize. This appears to be part of the php-pecl-pdo-devel.i386 package. So installed this with yum
yum install php-pecl-pdo-devel

I then tried installing pdflib through pear again, but this time it had a different complaint aclocal: command not found. So apparently I need the automake package.
yum install automake

I try installing pdflib again, but this time it complains about no c compliler found! So then I try install gcc
yum install gcc