From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rabbe Fogelholm" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Check for absent 'ar' needed in `configure' Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:23:27 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020328202327.25248.qmail@operamail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017347084 27524 127.0.0.1 (28 Mar 2002 20:24:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16qgRv-00079p-00 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:24:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16qgRt-0001ZE-00; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:24:41 -0500 Original-Received: from 205-158-62-42.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.42] helo=ws4-1.us4.outblaze.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16qgQj-0001XM-00 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:23:29 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 25249 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Mar 2002 20:23:27 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Original-Received: from [62.5.46.27] by ws4-1.us4.outblaze.com with http for eubrafo@operamail.com; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:23:27 +0100 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Originating-Ip: 62.5.46.27 X-Originating-Server: ws4-1.us4.outblaze.com Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:277 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:277 In Gnu Emacs 21.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit) Today I had the pleasure of installing Emacs on a recently configured Solaris 8 machine. Compiling worked almost completely out-of-the-tarball, but I noticed one matter that could be improved. Before building emacs I installed GNU Make 3.78.1 and GCC 2.95.2. I then went through the `configure' step and proceeded to `make' (having first made a symlink /usr/local/bin/make pointing to /usr/local/bin/gmake). The compilation stopped when `ar' could not be found. The remedy was to append /usr/ccs/bin to the PATH and re-run. My suggestion then is that `configure' should check for the presence of `ar' and catch the problem earlier on if there is no `ar' in the PATH. --Rabbe Fogelholm, Stockholm, Sweden, Emacs user since 1981 -- _______________________________________________ Download the free Opera browser at http://www.opera.com/ Powered by Outblaze