librcmlib.a not found

[AsyamMD]

I am trying to fresh install RegCM in my newly installed Ubuntu LTS. I stumbled upon this error message:

ld: /home/asyam/RegCM/Share/librcmlib.a: error adding symbols: archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
make[3]: *** [Makefile:408: terrain] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/asyam/RegCM/PreProc/Terrain'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:392: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/asyam/RegCM/PreProc'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:439: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/asyam/RegCM'
make: *** [Makefile:371: all] Error 2

I tried finding librcmlib.a in the RegCM directory but found nothing. The problem went away when I git checkout db456c19b. Thank you.