As has already been discovered and explained in the "forum post that they didn't want you to read".... chronic bugs in the linker has caused Kim to not be able to sucessfully build Java, a problem she posted about today in the forum.
Julian H also had inconsistent results trying to build libbe.so... but whilst trying to build it in Linux the problem was mysteriously gone. Hmmmm. Well them's the breaks when Haiku's linker has a serious unreported and uncorrected bug. All will seem to be great if the library is built in Linux.
However....the symboling difference will eventually rear its ugly head again when some software being built from source in Haiku attempts to link against it. And it will be quite a mystery. Well its not a mystery and hasn't been for quite some time.
The silly $30,000 suggested bounty for GoBe Productive backport is indeed a waste of money...not only for reasons stated today in the forum...but because it would be much more beneficial for Haiku (in general) if shared memory were fixed and if the kernel were developed to be robust enough to handle building applications like Open Office. But that will still be impossible while the linker that Ingo broke remains practically useless.
George Galloway
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