[cups.general] Re: error: Unable to find required library archive

[Rowland Penny]

On Saturday 20 Nov 2004 10:04, Anonymous wrote:
> Hello,
> How did you fix this...even i have the same problem
> Thank you
> Prakash
>
> > Trying to install CUPS on Solaris. There's no binary installation package
> > that I can find.
> >
 
try http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/s9pkgs_download.html
you will have to create an account and log in, you can then download cups for 
solaris 9. there is another page for solaris 8, if you are running anything 
earlier you can even download the complete OS for free.

> > 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.
>
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