georg_ritter@... wrote:

> Hi Claudio,
>
> thanks for your hint - the source tarball is exactly what I'm looking
> for.
>
> With 'evaluate' I actually meant to get the source code compiled. I
> have evaluated the interbase 6.01 binary (on Solaris), and I am hooked
> now- it's exactly what we need! I have built a 6.5 Gig Database
> containing some million blobs for storing scientific measurement data,
> and it works great.
>
> But in order to push Firebird further in my organisation, I need to
> demonstrate that we can build it on Solaris/Linux/Windows NT (as we
> have a policy of _not_ using or shipping binaries that we haven't
> compiled ourselfs). Further down the road we might need to port it to
> HP-UX. I hope to be able to give something back to the Firebird
> community eventually, once I'm getting into the code and can compile
> it.
>
> Thanks again,
> GEORG

You may wish to check
ftp://firebird.sourceforge.net/pub/firebird/kkuznetsov/
and above for Solaris specific stuff.

good luck

Frank


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