Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: FireBird CS locking on FreeBSD?
Author Scott Taylor
At 07:34 07/25/03, you wrote:
>At 05:24 PM 25/07/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >The problem may not exist on that version (1.0.2.908-1). My issue may be
> >specific to 1.0.0.796-0, but I'm not sure. It is running Linux binaries
> using
> >the Linux_base that comes with FreeBSD
>
>Is that some sort of compatibility layer?

It's somewhat of an environment with Linux Libraries, like a virtual
machine, similar to WINE. Sometimes these things work, sometimes they
don't, never are they guaranteed. Never should they be used on production
servers, as far as I am concerned.

> >; and with the software I need to run
> >"apparently" they require you use that specific version of Firebird.
> >
> >If there is a FreeBSD binary
>
>Yes, there
>is. http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/firebird-1.0.2-50.tbz

That should help him. :)