non-GNU ar not found by configure: configure works; make fails

[Thomas Lofgren]

Hi,

this seems to be an autoconf problem, and I don't speak autoconf.

On Solaris 2.6 without a GNU ar (but with gcc):

checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking whether large file support needs explicit enabling... yes
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for minix/config.h... (cached) no
checking for Cygwin environment... (cached) no
checking for mingw32 environment... (cached) no
checking for executable suffix... (cached) no
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... (cached) no
checking for a BSD compatible install... ./support/install.sh -c
checking for ar... no
checking for ranlib... (cached) :
checking for bison... (cached) bison -y


The configure is successful, but the build fails complaining about
'cr' not found.  cr is the firs flag passed to ar (but the ar variable
was empty).

I guess the expected behavior is for configure to fail if it doesn't
find ar.

I haven't tried putting /usr/ccs/bin in my PATH.  I'm guesing it would
find it then.

Obviously no big deal, but it could save people time and aggravation.

Thanks,
Tom Lofgren
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