db3-3.3.11 Configure error - build failure

[hiroki.ora@…]

--->  Computing dependencies for db3
--->  Fetching db3
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for db3
--->  Extracting db3
--->  Applying patches to db3
--->  Configuring db3
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_databases_db3/work/db-3.3.11/build_unix" && ../dist/configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-compat185 --enable-dump185 --enable-cxx --includedir=/opt/local/include/db3 --program-transform-name=s,^db,db3, " returned error 1
Command output: checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin10.0.0
checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin10.0.0
checking if building in the top-level directory... no
checking if --enable-compat185 option specified... yes
checking if --enable-cxx option specified... yes
checking if --enable-debug option specified... no
checking if --enable-debug_rop option specified... no
checking if --enable-debug_wop option specified... no
checking if --enable-diagnostic option specified... no
checking if --enable-dump185 option specified... yes
checking if --enable-java option specified... no
checking if --enable-posixmutexes option specified... no
checking if --enable-rpc option specified... no
checking if --enable-tcl option specified... no
checking if --enable-test option specified... no
checking if --enable-uimutexes option specified... no
checking if --enable-umrw option specified... no
checking if --with-embedix=DIR option specified... no
checking if --with-rpm=DIR option specified... no
checking if --with-tcl=DIR option specified... no
checking if --with-uniquename=NAME option specified... no
checking for ar... missing_ar
configure: error: No ar utility found.

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[toby@…]

r57611

[toby@…]

and... db3 removed in r57616; updated its few dependencies to use db4x instead