# Ruby 1.9 Installation Woes

**URL:** <https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-1-9-installation-woes/44039>\
**Category:** ruby-talk\
**Created:** [25 January 2008 21:31 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-1-9-installation-woes/44039 "2008-01-25T21:31:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![fedzor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@fedzor](https://rubytalk.org/u/fedzor)\
**Post date:** [25 January 2008 21:31 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-1-9-installation-woes/44039/1 "2008-01-25T21:31:55Z")

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I am trying to install ruby 1.9 on my mac (system details below).

HOWEVER, I keep getting an ld error with ./libruby19-static.a! I understand what it's saying but i don't know how to fix it.

Hopefully someone has run into this before:

% make  
...  
/usr/bin/ld: archive: ./libruby19-static.a has no table of contents, add one with ranlib(1) (can't load from it)  
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status  
make[1]: \*\*\* [ruby19] Error 1  
make: \*\*\* [all] Error 2  
%

I have n0 clue why this is happening.

System Report:  
Darwin  
PPC  
Mac OS 10.4.11  
Ruby 1.8.6 installed perfectly fine from source  
==\> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-11-14 patchlevel 5000) [powerpc-darwin8.10.0]

Please let me know if I can help you help me!

Thanks,  
Ari