From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-03-13T20:35:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby 1.8.6 has been released - SOLVED

Caleb Tennis wrote:
>
>> gcc -Wall -g -pipe -fno-common  -DRUBY_EXPORT  -L/opt/local/lib -L.   
>> main.o  -lruby-static -ldl -lobjc   -o ruby
>
> The ruby you are building is linking against the ruby lib in 
> /opt/local/lib.  Can you try moving that out of the way first?
>
That's the ticket! In fact this morning I had an email from Patrick 
Georgi, who said:

    Anyway: it tries to link /opt/local/lib/libruby-static.a, which is
    very likely the old version.

    Either remove that file on build-time (it will be recreated when you
    install), or change the command line to
    gcc -Wall -g -pipe -fno-common  -DRUBY_EXPORT  -L/opt/local/lib -L.
    main.o  libruby-static.a -ldl -lobjc   -o ruby

    ie. change -lruby-static.a to libruby-static.a

    I had the same problem on Solaris.

I did as he recommended an now everything is working perfectly. Thanks, 
Patrick and Caleb!