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Mention that sudo needs "ar" to build.

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Todd C. Miller
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@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@ A) This usually means you either don't have a working compiler. This
to why this is happening. On many systems, compiler components live
in /usr/ccs/bin which may not be in your PATH environment variable.
Q) When I run configure, it says "sudo requires the 'ar' utility to build".
A) As part of the build process, sudo creates a temporary library containing
objects that are shared amongst the different sudo executables.
On Unix systems, the "ar" utility is used to do this. This error
indicates that "ar" is missing on your system. On Solaris systems,
you may need to install the SUNWbtool package. On other systems
"ar" may be included in the GNU binutils package.
Q) Sudo compiles but when I run it I get "Sorry, sudo must be setuid root."
and sudo quits.
A) Sudo must be setuid root to do its work. You need to do something like