"Greg Hudson via RT" <rt-comment@krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

> The problem is that the "ar" program, which is used to create static 
> libraries, wasn't found at configure time in your environment.  I don't 
> know why this is.

The "ar" program is often in /usr/ccs/bin on Solaris hosts, which
might not be in a user's default $PATH.