Hi Nigel,

>Woohaa, it won't be as easy as that.

Wishfull thinking on my part :)

>I'd use the guide on building firebird
>from source as a primary guide, and
>if the build (or configure) steps break,
>see if that section of the source
>is covered in the patch file for FreeBSD.

I'll give it a shot as soon as I get my new iMac. Hopefully someone
else may have done it prior to that and can share what worked and what
didn't. I'll be back with more questions I'm sure. Thanks for the input.

Regards,
Roy F.

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Nigel Weeks" <nweeks@...> wrote:
>
>
> > >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Mac OS X(possibly slightly out of date)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.
> >
>
> Woohaa, it won't be as easy as that.
>
> I'd use the guide on building firebird from source as a primary
guide, and
> if the build (or configure) steps break, see if that section of the
source
> is covered in the patch file for FreeBSD.
>
> As OpenDarwin (Mac OS X's unix underlayer) is based on FreeBSD, many
parts
> of the underlying system are alarmingly similar...
>
> Nige.
>