Unable to find required library archive command

[Piyush Saxena]

Me a new bee. I have gotten to the part where, i have installed the imaging libraries :- JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and ZLIB libraries. Some where on the internet it says to at least install SFWcups, SFWgcmn, SFWoscp, SFWespgs, SFWgcc34l from the companion CD but there exists none in the i386 folder. Foomatic is done. You see am using VM for my sun 10 operating system. GCC looks good with 3.4.6 . I am using CUPS ver 1.5.3 install file.

I am more concerned with the last line below and would like some guidance and "help :- configure: error: Unable to find required library archive command."

I go to CUPS dir and type: #./configure and below is the output i get....

bash-3.2# ./configure
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
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 ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for ranlib... no
checking for ar... no
checking for chmod... /usr/bin/chmod
checking for gzip... /usr/bin/gzip
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 /cups-1.5.3/install-sh
configure: error: Unable to find required library archive command.