Philippe Makowski [2007-12-31 17:28] :

> 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/)
>

And sorry I forgot to mention others :

For MacOsx Firebird is (for what I know) the only RDBMS provided as a Framework
and the Solaris 10 port is also provided by the project
(http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=engine_203)

So it seems, that you have the choice ;)