It's not broken, the install allows to build kernel modules, which was asked by end users. Please install the "build-essential" package to get a more complete build environment. Also note, that you need to install the -dev package for every library that you do use for your development work.
> Broken GCC by default is very unintuitive
It's not broken, the install allows to build kernel modules, which was asked by end users. Please install the "build-essential" package to get a more complete build environment. Also note, that you need to install the -dev package for every library that you do use for your development work.
Closing this bug as wontfix.