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No rc command on solaris?

I'm trying to compile nmap on solaris, however the rc command is missing,

make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/src/nmap-7.40/libpcap'
rc libpcap.a pcap-dlpi.o fad-glifc.o pcap.o inet.o gencode.o optimize.o nametoaddr.o etherent.o savefile.o sf-pcap.o sf-pcap-ng.o pcap-common.o bpf_image.o bpf_dump.o dlpisubs.o scanner.o grammar.o bpf_filter.o version.o
make[1]: rc: Command not found
make[1]: *** [libpcap.a] Error 127

I've tried to look for rc or grc in /, but never found an executable.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • rc is intended to be an argument to ar, not a command. However the $(AR) make variable that should normally point to ar is, for some unknown reason, undefined. Thus this line:

    $(AR) rc $@ $(OBJ) $(ADDLARCHIVEOBJS)

    becomes what you are seeing.

    You can try to fix this by running make whatever... AR=ar, or perhaps by using GNU make.