On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 23:31:37 -0500
"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@schemamania.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, "Mike M. Volokhov" <mishka@apk.od.ua> wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 16:52:33 +0100
> > Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.maer.vier@onlinehome.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > James K. Lowden wrote:
> > > > I have spent considerable time lately getting the Firebird database
> > > > to build on 1.6.  Once I get it working, I'm hoping to package it.
> > > 
> > > Someone already started pkgsrc-wip/firebird. I don't know in which
> > > state it is right now.
> > 
> > I think it would be nice to contact the firebird developers and submit
> > all changes James made. In this case, the firebird may been built even
> > when package will not available yet.
> 
> I joined the Firebird development list.  I have the non-threaded engine
> working.  I'll take a look at the wip patches (thanks for the tip) to
> compare them to mine.  Maybe someone's already figured out how to pass
> rpath to the linker in Firebird's,

Possible by setting "LDFLAGS=-Wl,-R/run/path" environment variable
before running autogen.sh script?

> um, unusual build framework.  
> 

That's it :-/

> The maintainers are expecting my patches for NetBSD.  I want future
> versions to build out of the box.  
> 
> I'm working with CVS HEAD and hoping that I can retrofit the changes to
> Firebird's recent 1.5 release.  

Thank's a lot! That's good news for me :-)

--
Mishka.