Re: [xml] make problem on solaris

["Brian E. Lozier" <brian massassi net>]

Paul, thank you for your infomative response.

 I looked and ar is installed here:
/usr/ccs/bin/ar
So it appears the configure script isn't finding it.

How can I tell the configure script where ar is?

On 30 Mar 2006 15:40:30 -0500, Paul D. Smith <psmith gnu org> wrote:
> %% "Brian E. Lozier" <brian massassi net> writes:
>
>   bel> I am trying to get libxml2 compiled on a solaris (uname -a: SunOS
>   bel> buildsolaris 5.8 Generic_108528-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2).  I am
>   bel> getting errors during the "make" step but I cannot figure out what the
>   bel> actual error is (and thus I don't even know where to start looking for
>   bel> a solution).  I tried attaching logs of configure & make but the list
>   bel> rejected them.  So most of it is pasted to the bottom of this message.
>
> Something is misconfigured on your system; look:
>
>   bel> false cru .libs/libxml2.a  SAX.o entities.o encoding.o error.o
>   bel> parserInternals.o parser.o tree.o hash.o list.o xmlIO.o xmlmemory.o
>   bel> uri.o valid.o xlink.o HTMLparser.o HTMLtree.o debugXML.o xpath.o
>   bel> xpointer.o xinclude.o nanohttp.o nanoftp.o DOCBparser.o catalog.o
>   bel> globals.o threads.o c14n.o xmlstring.o xmlregexp.o xmlschemas.o
>   bel> xmlschemastypes.o xmlunicode.o xmlreader.o relaxng.o dict.o SAX2.o
>   bel> xmlwriter.o legacy.o chvalid.o pattern.o xmlsave.o xmlmodule.o
>   bel> schematron.o
>
> Note that the command you're invoking here is actually "false", then
> you're sending it a bunch of .o files.
>
> "false" is a UNIX command that always fails (that is, always exits with
> a non-0 exit code).  It doesn't print anything, it just exits with a
> failure.  That's why you're seeing this:
>
>   bel> make[2]: *** [libxml2.la] Error 1
>
> This is make telling you that the command it invoked ("false" in this
> case) failed.
>
>
> Given the arguments above I'd say that "false" is supposed to be the ar
> (archive) command, which is used to create static libraries (libxxx.a).
>
> It seems likely that you either don't have one installed, or whatever
> configure step you ran couldn't find one and so used "false" instead.
>
> This is (IMO) a poorly thought-out response to not being able to find
> "ar"; either the tool should fail during the configuration or else it
> should provide a much more informative message.
>
> But, there you go!
>
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