Hi Nigel,

>Patches required to get it to build on FreeBSD:

How would you apply those patches?

>Document on building on
>Mac OS X(possibly slightly out of date)

Thanks, that was very helpfull. So in essence would I just follow the
David Pugh instructions on building Firebird from source and then
apply the above patches? Thanks for the info.

Regards,
Roy F.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Nigel Weeks" <nweeks@...> wrote:
>
>
> > >You'll need to do a port - probably
> > >easier than the PowerPC port, but
> > >still, not a simple install.
> >
> > Ok, well at least it can be done. Are there any instructions anywhere
> > that explain how do to this? I have the Firebird book but don't see
> > anything in there about this and am not even sure I know what you
> > mean. I assume you mean build it from source code? I've never done
> > that before but could probably work through it if I had some
> > instructions. Thanks for any info on this. Appreciate it.
>
> It's going to be incredibly close to the FreeBSD port, and the other
porting
> effort to PowerPC build.
>
> Patches required to get it to build on FreeBSD:
>
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/databases/firebird-server/files/
>
> Document on building on Mac OS X(possibly slightly out of date)
>
http://homepage.mac.com/david.pugh/FirebirdOSX/FirebirdDatabaseonOSX.html
>
>
> Nige.
>