# Building ruby 1.9.1: miniruby failure

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**Created:** [March 11, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-1-9-1-miniruby-failure/184992 "2010-03-11T16:02:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![wonderdog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ecd19e/32.png) [@wonderdog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wonderdog)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-1-9-1-miniruby-failure/184992/1 "2010-03-11T16:02:41Z")

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Building on a SuSE 9 box. Not sure how to troubleshoot. Any advice?

Thanks

gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wno-parentheses -L. -rdynamic -Wl,-export-  
dynamic main.o dln.o dmyencoding.o miniprelude.o array.o bignum.o  
class.o compar.o complex.o dir.o enum.o enumerator.o error.o eval.o  
load.o proc.o file.o gc.o hash.o inits.o io.o marshal.o math.o  
numeric.o object.o pack.o parse.o process.o random.o range.o  
rational.o re.o regcomp.o regenc.o regerror.o regexec.o regparse.o  
regsyntax.o ruby.o safe.o signal.o sprintf.o st.o strftime.o string.o  
struct.o time.o transcode.o util.o variable.o version.o compile.o  
debug.o iseq.o vm.o vm\_dump.o thread.o cont.o ascii.o us\_ascii.o  
unicode.o utf\_8.o newline.o strlcpy.o strlcat.o dmyext.o -lpthread -  
lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm -o miniruby  
./miniruby: wrong argument type Fixnum (expected Data) (TypeError)  
make: \*\*\* [.rbconfig.time] Error 1

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**Author:** ![wonderdog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/ecd19e/32.png) [@wonderdog](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wonderdog)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/building-ruby-1-9-1-miniruby-failure/184992/2 "2010-03-11T16:12:38Z")

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Hi,

In message “Re: Building ruby 1.9.1: miniruby failure”  
on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:01:47 +0900, Wonderdog [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
writes:

|Building on a SuSE 9 box. Not sure how to troubleshoot. Any advice?

Need more info. Ruby version, compiler version, etc.

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          matz.

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