# Getting "gcc: \`-b' must come at the start of the command lin **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 24, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-gcc-b-must-come-at-the-start-of-the-command-lin/94186 "2006-04-24T19:54:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-gcc-b-must-come-at-the-start-of-the-command-lin/94186/1 "2006-04-24T19:54:29Z")
I get error during make of version 1.8.4. while trying to install in the following environment: gcc main.o libruby-static.a -ldl -lcrypt -lm -o miniruby -g -O2 -DRUBY\_EXPORT -brtl gcc: `-b’ must come at the start of the command line make: \*\*\* [miniruby] Error 1 AIX 5.2 gcc 3.3.2 GNU make 3.8 Has anyone seen this before. I’m a pre-newbe so I’m not sure this is the correct mail list for this topic. If not please let me know where I should go. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-gcc-b-must-come-at-the-start-of-the-command-lin/94186/2 "2006-04-25T05:27:28Z")
On Apr 24, 2006, at 10:52 AM, [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi Scott, You just missed a discussion on this very same topic a couple of days go. There are two write-ups on getting Ruby to compile on AIX, one I wrote and the other by Daniel S… Here is the link to the discussion you missed: [http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/189688](http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/189688) Hope this helps! Christopher Gibbons