error: Unable to find required library archive command

[Paul]

Trying to install CUPS on Solaris. There's no binary installation package that I can find. Using the source code, when compiling, this is what I get after running ./configure:

checking for default print user... lp
checking for default print group... sys
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... 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 for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /fs/local/bin/install -c
checking for ranlib... :
checking for ar... no
checking for htmldoc... no
checking for ln... /usr/bin/ln
checking for mv... /usr/bin/mv
checking for nroff... /usr/bin/nroff
checking for rm... /usr/bin/rm
checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
checking for strip... no
configure: error: Unable to find required library archive command.

The config.log doesn't tell me anything more than the output of the configure script.