Re: gEDA-user: make error

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>]

  Under Solaris, "ar" lives under /usr/ccs/bin.  Make sure that's in
your path, or explicitly defined in the Makefile.

       -Dave

On June 18, Chris Ellec wrote:
> looks like you're missing the "ar" program, a utility used for managing 
> libraries.
> 
> On Red Hat, it's in the binutils rpm package, see if you can find that 
> for Solaris.
> 
> Chris.
> 
> 
> 
> > I downloaded all the required tarballs, including gtk, glib, and guile. 
> > Unfortunately, I recieved an unknown error. Here's what I did.
> > 
> > Note: I'm running solaris 8
> > 
> > cd glib-1.2.10
> > ./configure    (everything here is ok)
> > make        (error here)
> > 
> > make  all-recursive
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/remigio/geda/glib-1.2.10'
> > Making all in .
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/export/home/remigio/geda/glib-1.2.10'
> > /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -D_REENTRANT  -o 
> > libglib.la -rpath /usr/local/lib -version-info 0:10:0         -release 
> > 1.2        -export-dynamic garray.lo gcache.lo gcompletion.lo 
> > gdataset.lo gdate.lo gerror.lo ghash.lo ghook.lo giochannel.lo 
> > giounix.lo glist.lo gmain.lo gmem.lo gmessages.lo gmutex.lo gnode.lo 
> > gprimes.lo grel.lo gscanner.lo gslist.lo gstrfuncs.lo gstring.lo 
> > gtimer.lo gtree.lo gutils.lo
> > rm -fr .libs/libglib.la .libs/libglib.* .libs/libglib-1.2.*
> > /usr/ccs/bin/ld -G -h libglib-1.2.so.0 -o .libs/libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10  
> > garray.lo gcache.lo gcompletion.lo gdataset.lo gdate.lo gerror.lo 
> > ghash.lo ghook.lo giochannel.lo giounix.lo glist.lo gmain.lo gmem.lo 
> > gmessages.lo gmutex.lo gnode.lo gprimes.lo grel.lo gscanner.lo gslist.lo 
> > gstrfuncs.lo gstring.lo gtimer.lo gtree.lo gutils.lo  -lc
> > (cd .libs && rm -f libglib-1.2.so.0 && ln -s libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10 
> > libglib-1.2.so.0)
> > (cd .libs && rm -f libglib.so && ln -s libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10 libglib.so)
> > ar cru .libs/libglib.a  garray.o gcache.o gcompletion.o gdataset.o 
> > gdate.o gerror.o ghash.o ghook.o giochannel.o giounix.o glist.o gmain.o 
> > gmem.o gmessages.o gmutex.o gnode.o gprimes.o grel.o gscanner.o gslist.o 
> > gstrfuncs.o gstring.o gtimer.o gtree.o gutils.o
> > ./libtool: ar: not found
> > make[2]: *** [libglib.la] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/export/home/remigio/geda/glib-1.2.10'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/remigio/geda/glib-1.2.10'
> > make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> > 
> > 
> > Any help is welcome. Thank you.
> > 
> > sonny
> > 
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