libiovmall.so-bug

I am not amused.
I tried to show a friend, how easy one could install Io on debian lenny, and how much fun one might get with Io. I downloaded the tar-file from the Io-Homepage (Version stevedekorte-io-9ead08c1ef29e835a1ff43ec089cc979074a5a42.tar.gz) ... etc. Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle. It did not work!

I have checked different versions of Linux with Io and found it compiling from scratch on SUSE 11.1, but not with Ubuntu 9.04 and actually not with debian. So one can be shure that all potential Io-users with all debian-versions (and as you know there are many) will have a bad success just at the first touch with Io! Really not a good letter of recommendation and my friend was not convinced of Io after that false start.

As I know that bug from ubuntu and posted a possible workaround in my posting from Jun 16, 2009 (Line 21: DLL_COMMAND := -shared -Wl,-soname="libiovmall.so"). I checked the BSD directory structure and found /usr/local/bin as well. I tried an install un SUSE with this line - successful. I can not see any problem with this line in any Linux-flavor or any BSD system.

I am not to claim that this is a solution of any basic problem, but it makes Io installable for any Linux and BSD system and will give potential users a good start.

Regards BB