Circular reference to 'ar'

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Michael Muratet US-Huntsville" <Michael.Muratet@operon.com> writes:

> I was building a package on a Solaris 9 system and it failed for the
> lack of the 'ar' archive utility. So, I downloaded binutils-2.16.1
> and tried to build that and much to my suprise _it_ requires the
> 'ar' utility. How does one go about getting 'ar'?

The Solaris version of ar is available from Sun somewhere.  It gets
installed in /usr/ccs/bin.  I don't know the name of the package,
though.

To build GNU as without already having ar, see binutils/README.

Ian