From: Mark Wilson <mwilson13@...>
Date: 2003-06-24T13:33:24+09:00
Subject: Re: problem installing 1.6.8 on OS X 10.2


On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 09:17 PM, Gary.Palmer wrote:

> [snip]

> PALMERS:~/src/ruby-1.6.8] gary% make
> gcc -g -O2 -pipe  main.o dmyext.o libruby.a -lobjc   -o miniruby
> ld: archive: libruby.a has no table of contents, add one with 
> ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> make: *** [miniruby] Error 1
> [PALMERS:~/src/ruby-1.6.8] gary% make test
> gcc -g -O2 -pipe  main.o dmyext.o libruby.a -lobjc   -o miniruby
> ld: archive: libruby.a has no table of contents, add one with 
> ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
> make: *** [miniruby] Error 1
> [PALMERS:~/src/ruby-1.6.8] gary% locate libruby.a
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/powerpc-darwin1.3.7/libruby.a
> [PALMERS:~/src/ruby-1.6.8] gary% ranlib 
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.6/powerpc-darwin1.3.7/libruby.a
> dyld: ranlib Undefined symbols:
> ranlib undefined reference to ___keymgr_dwarf2_register_sectiyns 
> expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ranlib undefined reference to elf expected to be defined in 
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ranlib undefined reference to Zstrlen expected to be defined in 
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> Trace/BPT trap
> [snip]

I've never seen that before. I think you have to start over from the 
beginning on this one.

I would recommend the following (not all of these are likely to be 
necessary, but they help control the environment):

1. make sure you have the most recent Apple Developer Tools (I think 
the last update was December 2002).

2. delete /usr/local/lib/ruby and usr/local/bin/ruby.

3. delete the extracted ruby folder.

4. use the bash shell (type bash at your terminal prompt).

5. run the following on the ruby tarball:

gtar -zxf ruby-1.6.8.tar.gz

Don't use stuff-it.

6. next do the following:

cd ruby-1.6.8/
CFLAGS='-g -O2 -fno-common' ./configure
make
make test
sudo make install
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libruby-static.a


Some of the above advice comes from this page:

http://www.imasy.or.jp/~hisa/mac/rubycocoa/build.en.html

Regards,

Mark Wilson