Fresh installation of Ubunut 7.10 from disk. No updates.

download and compile putty-0.60.tar.gz

command ./configure
error: C compiler cannot create executables
fix:
apt-get install libgtk1.2-dev
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install build-essential

./configure
make -f Makefile.gtk
make -f Makefile.gtk install

error: on make install /usr/local/man/man1 is not created
fix:
mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1
rerun make -f Makefile.gtk install

done