>SunOS ewalker-sun 5.8 Generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
>did configure: ./configure --without-zlib --without-libxml2
>--bindir=$HOME/bin --libdir=$HOME/lib
>Why is it complaining about an "ar" command not found.

"ar" is in /usr/ccs/bin under Solaris.  You probably don't have
it in your path by default, since it's part of the programming
development tools along with cc and make.

Steve Bacher
Draper Laboratory
seb@draper.com