`bcp` assumes `make` and `gcc` along with a handful of devel headers are installed.
Your intended use is a computer that doesn't have SSH running?
I never run an ssh server on my laptops, no reason to really. Secondly, with ssh, it requires you know ip or hostname, both which I don't want to worry about.
Ah! I had not thought of copying between client computers.
Now it makes sense. And I can see it's use, at home.