AH-HA! That's probably exactly the cause of my issue then. I wonder if netlabs would accept a 'build-essentials' RPM metapackage that would install all of the needed packages (gcc, etc).
I don't see why not, they might have some ideas about what it should contain.
netlabs.org consisists of the developers that use Adrian's facility to host projects. For to address someone, you should better address the maintainers of the netlabs.org .rpm repository. That's bww, not Adrian. (BTW: My project is on netlabs.org, too and I am not involved in any .rpm project, but I endorse that.)
In case of the .rpm files I have to say that bww uses the
netlabs.org repository only for providing new packages. The sources, including bug tracker etc. were copied to
GitHub long time ago.
I recommend the following: If you want to create a new
SVN project with Trac, address Adrian. If you want to add something else or have the need of
GitHub, contact Martin. If you want to have something added to the .rpm repository, contact bww.