how to upgrade cups from 1.1 to 1.4

[jim]

So I've run the ./configure which produces the following  "Unable to find required library archive command".... I've include the output as well...  thanks

bash-3.00# ./configure
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 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... no
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... CC
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... no
checking whether CC accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... no
checking for ar... no
checking for chmod... /usr/bin/chmod
checking for htmldoc... no
checking for ld... /usr/ucb/ld
checking for ln... /usr/bin/ln
checking for mv... /usr/bin/mv
checking for rm... /usr/bin/rm
checking for rmdir... /usr/bin/rmdir
checking for sed... /usr/bin/sed
checking for xdg-open... no
checking for install-sh script... using /tmp/cups-1.4.6/cups-1.4.6/install-sh
configure: error: Unable to find required library archive command.
bash-3.00#



> On May 11, 2011, at 1:53 PM, jim wrote:
> > I'm fairly new to the Unix world.
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> > I downloaded the cups version 1.4.6 and have untared the tar ball.  What is the next step ??
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> Read "INSTALL.txt".
>
> > Will I lose all my currently configured printers ?
>
> No.
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