On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:33:54PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:18:37PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > 
> > I'v got a brand spanking new Ultra 40, just for running Amanda! I',
> > trhilled.
> > 
> > But, I seem to be having a problem geting either the stable version, or the
> > latest 2.5 bersion to build coreclty. here's a logfile from the stable
> > build.
> > 
> > 
> 
> The command "false" should have been "ar", the "archive" command used to
> build and extract from libraries.  Likely you are running some release
> of Sol 10 and I'm unfamiliar with that.  In Sol 9 x86 "ar" is found in
> /usr/xpg4/bin and in /usr/ccs/bin.
> 
> A guess, when you ran configure the directory containing ar was not in your
> PATH, configure couldn't find ar and thus used the false command instead.
> Your Makefile probably contains a line like   AR = /usr/bin/false  .
> 

Well, you seem to have diagnosed the problem coreclty, but perhaps not the
cause, nor the corective action. A what for ar results in
/usr/ccs/bin/what. so it _is_ in the path. But the generateMakefile does
look as you suppose.

Any idea how to overide this incorect behavior of cofnigure?


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