To be more specific, no binaries or object files on my CentOS 5.5 build VM
My CentOS 6 build VM compiles successfully.
Since I downloaded a pre-built image for the CentOS 6 VM and built the CentOS 5.5 VM from an ISO, I suspect I may be missing a necessary package (or packages) but I'm not sure how to determine if this is the case. Not sure I mentioned this before but I'm very new to building in general and building on Linux specifically; my primary platform is Windows. I didn't want to work with Cygwin because of the massive amounts of issues.