On Sep 21, 2004, at 9:46 AM, jenarchie wrote:

> I have installed the Firebird MacOS X 1.5.1 classic server on my
> powerpc (iMac), however it does not run properly.
>
> I test a client connection to the database server (via squirrel), and
> see the fb_inet_server process displayed when running the "top"
> command. Then it disappears after a couple of seconds and returns a
> connection error to the client.
>
> I try to run "isql" manually and get several errors indicating some
> missing symbols, like:
> ./isql undefined reference to _btowc expected to be defined in
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./isql undefined reference to _iswctype expected to be defined in
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./isql undefined reference to _btowlower expected to be defined in
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./isql undefined reference to _btowupper expected to be defined in
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> etc...
>
> Am I correct in my findings that the current Firebird MacOSX installer
> will only work for OSX 10.3 and higher?

Since I didn't do the 1.5 build that is available on the sourceforge
site, I can't answer definitively. But I have generally seen these
errors when FB is build on one major version of OS X and then run on
another. It seems like apple moves a few symbols around in each major
release.

-John