From 39a1c546d8b5babf6da60512c51edce4010c9628 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mateus Devino <19861348+mdevino@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025 09:23:35 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add C compiler instructions to Fedora-based distros (#15674)

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## Summary

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This PR adds instructions to install a C compiler on Fedora-based Linux
distributions.

## Test Plan

```
# Start Fedora container interactively (can probably be done on Docker as well)
podman run -it registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora

# From now on, run all commands inside the container.
# Install Rustup
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

# Add cargo bin folder to PATH
export PATH="${HOME}/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"

# Install git, clone uv project and get into its folder
dnf install git
git clone https://github.com/astral-sh/uv.git
cd uv

# Try to compile uv and fail (error: linker `cc` not found)
cargo build

# Install C compiler
dnf install gcc

# Try to compile uv again. This time, successfully.
cargo build
```

Signed-off-by: Mateus Devino <mdevino@ibm.com>
---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index f7be958a4..f18287883 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ On Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions, you can install a C compiler wit
 sudo apt install build-essential
 ```
 
+On Fedora-based distributions, you can install a C compiler with:
+
+```shell
+sudo dnf install gcc
+```
+
 ## Testing
 
 For running tests, we recommend [nextest](https://nexte.st/).