Unable to find required library archive command

[Piyush Saxena]

> Piyush Saxena wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Make sure that /usr/ccs/bin and /usr/xpg4/bin are in the search path. The ar
> command should be in both directories.
>
> Helge
>
Great! I added those two in the path thought am not sure how to add "ar" command in both directories. I went to http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.cmds%2Fdoc%2Faixcmds1%2Far.htm    and tried the first few commands for "ar" but no success. then i could not use the setenv commands for the flags which i was pointing to the root directory e.g.
 setenv CFLAGS "-I/some/directory" ENTER (this would say setenv command not found. Not sure here. But...but i used
CFLAGS="-I/some/directory"; export CFLAGS ENTER
CXXFLAGS="-I/some/directory"; export CXXFLAGS ENTER
LDFLAGS="-L/some/directory"; export LDFLAGS ENTER
DSOFLAGS="-L/some/directory"; export DSOFLAGS ENTER
./configure ... ENTER
and it worked
than i did
./configure --enable-ssl ( though i did not download the ssl and tsl because it is no more available on the site: http://www.openssl.org)
--------------
./configure --enable-ssl \
    --with-openssl-includes=/foo/bar/include \
    --with-openssl-libs=/foo/bar/lib
-----------
Line 2 and 3 did not happen because the ssl and tsl are not installed.

Then i do "#make"
this gives me:-
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
g++  -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -Wunused -fPIC -Os -g -I.. -D_CUPS_SOURCE -I/usr/include/kerberosv5   -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS  -c -o ppdc-array.o ppdc-array.cxx
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ppdc-array.o'
Current working directory /cups-1.5.3/ppdc
*** Error code 1
The following command caused the error:
for dir in cups test filter backend berkeley cgi-bin driver monitor notifier ppdc scheduler systemv conf data desktop locale man doc examples templates  fonts; do\
        echo Making all in $dir... ;\
        (cd $dir ; make  all ) || exit 1;\
done
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'

I will now work on what the ar command is, why setenv does not work and how to download SSL and TLS libraries. Till then some suggestions to makes my learning better would be appreciated.