[Bug 1206] configure: error: *** 'ar' missing, please install or fix your $PATH

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http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1206

           Summary: configure: error: *** 'ar' missing, please install or
                    fix your $PATH
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 4.3p2
          Platform: ix86
        OS/Version: Solaris
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Build system
        AssignedTo: bitbucket at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: papadg00 at yahoo.com


Hello, 

I'm attempting to build opensssh-4.3p2 using openssl-0.9.8b on a
Solaris 10 x64 machine. I use the gcc complier supplied by the Solaris
10x86 distribution under the package (SUNWgcc). My PATH is set to 
/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sfw/bin

I get the following error during configure


# ./configure --prefix=/opt/openssh
--with-ssl-dir=/var/tmp/make_ssh/openssl-0.9.8b
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking build system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10
checking host system type... i386-pc-solaris2.10
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
checking for ranlib... :
checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./install-sh -c
checking for egrep... egrep
checking for ar... no
checking for cat... /usr/bin/cat
checking for kill... /usr/bin/kill
checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
checking for ent... no
checking for bash... /usr/bin/bash
checking for ksh... (cached) /usr/bin/bash
checking for sh... (cached) /usr/bin/bash
checking for sh... /usr/bin/sh
checking for groupadd... /usr/sbin/groupadd
checking for useradd... /usr/sbin/useradd
checking for pkgmk... yes
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no
configure: error: *** 'ar' missing, please install or fix your $PATH
***

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance..




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