A quick and probably stupid question

[Tom Williams]

So, I'm wanting to build binutils 2.20.1 on a Solaris  8 (SPARC) system
but the system has a "partial" set of development tools installed.  gcc
is installed but but "ar" isn't.  There is a non-GNU linker installed as
well.

I've tried doing a build of the binutils source on this system and it
failed complaining the "ar" can't be found.

Am I out of luck in getting binutils built from source on this system,
requiring me to find and download a pre-built package?

Thanks!

Tom