Dear David,On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:32:02PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > Okay, I'm now actually trying to build on the Solaris system I was > practicing for earlier today. It's a SunOS ice 5.8 generic sun4u > sparc, it says here. It has gcc installed, and configure chunks along > fine for a while -- until > > checking for ar... missing_ar > configure: error: No ar utility found. > For this, install the following packages: system SUNWbtool CCS tools bundled with SunOS system SUNWbtoox CCS libraries bundled with SunOS (64-bit) I suggest you install these packages also, as when "ar" is really not installed in "/usr/ccs/bin", then probably "ranlib", "ldd" and other utilities are also missing: system SUNWscpr Source Compatibility, (Root) system SUNWscpu Source Compatibility, (Usr) system SUNWscpux Source Compatibility (Usr) (64-bit) system SUNWsprot Solaris Bundled tools system SUNWsprox Sun WorkShop Bundled 64-bit make library system SUNWtoo Programming Tools system SUNWtoox Programming Tools (64-bit) Add "/usr/ccs/bin" to your path and you should be happy. :) How "old" your Solaris 8 is, can be determined by "uname -a". The latest kernel patch revision should be 117350-26. See also the hardware revision in /etc/release. Yours, Martin Allert -- -------------------------------------------------------- arago AG, Institut fuer komplexes Datenmanagement Am Niddatal 3, 60488 Frankfurt/Main, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 069/405680, Fax 069/40568111, http://www.arago.de --------------------------------------------------------
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