Markus Hoenicka [2007-12-31 02:30] :

> > Things have tended (and still tend) to get sticky around the Debian and FreeBSD ports because they do their own thing. In the case of Debian, you can't even rely on a "version" containing the same stuff as the project releases...
> >
>
> This is bad news. I'd like to make things work on these platforms, but
> I don't want to drown this list in errors which occur only on these
> platforms, and only because the ports are screwed. Is there an OS
> which runs Firebird ok (except Windows which I'm not going to use)?
> Would I fare better if I tried to build Firebird from the official
> sources?
>

You don't need to build yourself Firebird
You can use the build Firebird project provide

I try to follow the different port and for what I know (except for Mandriva because they
work in coordination with us) there is sometimes little problem to solve

With Debian / Ubuntu it seems that their last package is ok (names of these packages are
firebird2.0 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/misc/firebird2.0-super) don't use firebird2
which is in fact Firebird 1.5 and have some problems as Helen said)

For FreeBSD, their last port is nearly ok, despite the fact that you need to change the
owner of the security2.fdb file and you have to setup yourself the inetd config

For Suse, the rpm need some maintenance, and it is hard to reach someone at Suse to get
the work done, but as I said, the builds provided by the Firebird project are ok

For RedHat, Fedora, Centos, situation is nearly the same as for Suse, but it seems that
the following repository have a good package for Fedora
(http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/tigro/)