At 09:43 PM 06-04-01 -0400, you wrote:

>This might make a good entry in the FAQ (for building 0.9.4 on Linux)
>My next question is how you build/bootstap on a new platform...

This list isn't actually for build support - the Firebird project has a developer list for that. It also has several HowTos including one for building the Linux version.

>I got codes.tgz from ftp.interbase.com://pub/products/release/Misc/codes.tgz
>I created a user called interbase, group interbase
>I got the interbase from CVS. I highly recommend making a tar of the CVS
>tree before building. It might be better to make another (non-master source
>directory), but this works....

For building the source from the InterBase tree, I believe Borland has a newsgroup at news://fora.borland.com.

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Helen
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