Re: make error...can not create "ar"

[Richard Dunham]

Thank you...it worked like a champ.

Richard


"Paul D. Smith" wrote:
> 
> %% Regarding make error...can not create "ar" ; you wrote:
> 
>   rd> # make ar
>   rd> /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -g    ar.c   -o ar
> 
> You can't make it because ar is a system utility (the library archive
> creator, the thing that creates libXXX.a files).  It is not a part of
> GNU make.
> 
>   rd> make[2]: ar: Command not found
> 
> This means that make can't find the ar program, which you must make
> available to build GNU make.
> 
> On Solaris, these tools are kept in the strange and unusual
> /usr/ccs/bin, so make sure that directory is in your $PATH variable.
> 
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