At 06:21 AM 6/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:

> >
> > Firebird runs well on all of the mainstream Linuxen - and others less
> > well-known - you may read the release notes and the Novice's Guide
>at the
> > website for guidance and gotchas regarding kernel incompatibilities.
> You
> > can get the main v.1.5 releasenotes in several languages, including
>yours,
> > at the main downloads page for Firebird 1.5, at www.ibphoenix.com.
> >
>
>I do have a problem trying to install firebird on yellow dog linux,
>which is probably a mainstream linux distro for ppc. When I tried to
>build it, it failed, illustrating MARCH=i586 and MCPU= something not ppc.

This is a platform issue - we don't have any ports for ppc yet. If you
feel you are up to doing this port yourself, feel free to post on
firebird-devel for advice. Nickolay Samofatov has already indicated his
willingness to assist, see this URL:
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=devel&sub=engine&id=plat_ppc64

The contest is over now, but I haven't heard whether anyone took up the
challenge. No doubt Nickolay will be able to put you in the picture.

./hb