From: Gennady <gfb@...>
Date: 2003-03-07T02:52:17+09:00
Subject: Re: OS X - eruby install problem: "libruby.a: No such file or directory"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis Hwang" <sera@fhwang.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: OS X - eruby install problem: "libruby.a: No such file or
directory"


> Okay, I built ruby 1.6.8, no problem, but on installing the stable
> version of eruby (1.0.3) I get this error:
>
> [francis eruby-1.0.3]# make
> gcc -g -O2 -pipe -fno-common -Wall -I.
> -I/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/powerpc-darwin6.0 -c eruby_lib.c
> ar rcu liberuby.a eruby_lib.o
> cc -dynamic -bundle -undefined suppress -flat_namespace
> -L/usr/local/lib eruby_lib.o \
>          -lobjc -o liberuby.bundle.1.0.3
> gcc  -L/usr/local/lib eruby_logo.o eruby_main.o -L. -leruby
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/powerpc-darwin6.0/libruby.a -lobjc -o eruby
> ld: table of contents for archive:
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/powerpc-darwin6.0/libruby.a is out of date;
> rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> make: *** [eruby] Error 1
>
> Any ideas as to where to look next?

You have the clue in your error message ;-) -- rerun ranlib on libruby.a
   $ ranlib /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/powerpc-darwin6.0/libruby.a

And then issue "make" again.

Gennady.

>
> Francis
>
> Gennady <bystr@mac.com> wrote in message
news:<E1F151A3-46BC-11D7-BBC9-0003939AEA24@mac.com>...
> > Standard OS X distribution does not have libruby.a, however it is very
> > easy and straight forward to build Ruby yourself. I have successfully
> > built ruby 1.6.8, eruby 1.0.0 and modruby 1.0.2 and made them all run
> > under Apache 2.43 on OS X 10.2. The only tiny problem I experienced
> > along the way was that to properly compile and install modruby I had to
> > create directory "doc" manually. I compiled all three with
> > "--enable-shared" and had to specify location of Apache 2.43 apxs
> > executable for modruby.
> >
> > Gennady.
>
>