libiovmall.so-bug

[bblochl2-2]

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

[dennisf486]

I've occasionally had trouble building Io on Ubuntu as well, and it was pretty frustrating.  It can usually be made to compile with some tweaking (did you run sudo ldconfig?).  Before getting upset, keep in mind that making a source project that can build correctly on every system is pretty challenging.  For you and I, things would be better if there were a .deb file for Io, because that could take care of making it installs properly.  Actually I think there is a .deb package for it, but I don't know who maintains it or where it is hosted.

--- In iolanguage@..., "bblochl2" <bblochl2@...> wrote:

>
> 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
>