SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS needs quotes on Solaris section of admin manual.
In the admin manual, there is some information about flags etc for Solaris: CC="cc -xc99" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/csw/include CFLAGS="-O -xlibmieee" F77=f95 FFLAGS=-O4 CXX=CC CXXFLAGS=-O FC=f95 FCFLAGS=$FFLAGS LDFLAGS=-L/opt/csw/lib SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS=-G -lCstd Where as the CC command is quoted, the SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS one is not. Failure to put quotes around it results in configure script aborting.