I installed gcc V4 since trying V3 only forces an install of V4.
Also does not include the assembler so in this state is usless for me since I need to generate exectuables.

I also downloaded the latest version of cups from their website (because cups is broken on my machine - see "no localhost") but cannot complete because ./config bales out and suggests I use autoconf to make a new ./config.

This means I need to install autoconf.
I did this but two dependencies are missing: perl (autom4e) & m4.

Sad because Slitaz is so brilliant in other ways.