evanmorris777 wrote:

> Bugger. I *really* didn't want to have to recompile things :-) But,
> having accepted that I have to, my second question remains. How do you
> compile it when the Firebird installation is not on the same machine?

You can't. You must have at least FB client on the machine, so that
Firebird client library is found.

However, I haven't found client-only instalation on Linux, so you have
to install the server and then disable it (so it doesn't start)

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Milan Babuskov
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