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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff background=""><FONT face=Arial size=2>hi,<BR><BR>I'm using
the src on Solaris 8. when I do a ./configure, I encounter the following
error message:<BR># ./configure<BR>loading cache ./config.cache<BR>checking host
system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8<BR>checking for gcc... gcc<BR>checking
whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes<BR>checking whether the C compiler
(gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no<BR>checking whether we are using GNU C...
yes<BR>checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes<BR>checking whether byte ordering
is bigendian... yes<BR>checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc
-E<BR>checking for ranlib... :<BR>checking for a BSD compatible install...
buildtools/install-sh -c<BR>checking whether ln -s works... yes<BR>checking for
bison... bison -y<BR>checking for flex... /usr/local/bin/flex<BR>checking for
ar... no<BR>checking for perl5... no<BR>checking for perl...
/usr/bin/perl<BR>configure: error: *** 'ar' missing, please install or fix your
$PATH ***<BR># <BR><BR>please advice</FONT></BODY></HTML>