Randal Carpenter schrieb:

>
> Hello,
>
> I had 2 problems with firebird source building on slackware 7.1. Point me
> to a better list if you have one thats more suited.
>
> 1. Notably the problem was assuming the "." was in the path, which
> on linux is the case as a regular user on most systems, and NOT
> the case on linux as root user. So when you su up, it fails when
> it trys to run msgs/check_messages file as just
> check_messages
>
> ./check_messages would have worked better...or they can do as I
> did and all "." to the path...but that adds potential security
> problems to linux...so most linux folks would frown on that.
>
> 2. It tried to use -lbsd as the curses library. Even the binary version
> of linux release uses -lncurses. This was in the make_kit file on the
> build root, the makefile in the gpre subdirectory, and in the makefile in
> the qli directory. I don't know of any linux version where the bsd
> library has not been replaced by ncurses or curses or both. Did I mess up
> here and forget to do something...I changed it where I found it, but the
> end result was a clean acting but non-complete build...

Hm, I removed this -lbsd thing in prefix.linux some time ago.
Has nothing to do with ncurses (an obscure bsd compatibility thing,
no idea why it was labeled CURSES_LIB)
Where needed -lncurses is used.
If you have to do changes in the makefiles do them
in builds/original.

>
> Once I fixed these it built cleanly and did not complain, but all the bins
> like gpre, qli and isql were all 0 bytes in size.

Have you looked into interbase/interbase/bin ?
They should be there.

>
> I figure there was somewhere I could have told it to use ncurses/curses
> libraries instead of bsd, and missing that step might have caused my 0
> byte binaries...though I got no errors.

I wonder how old your sources are,
you should get a new version from cvs.

Frank

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