FWIW...building from source fixed this problem.

After building (configure/make/make install), I added links in /usr/local/lib to point the the client libs in /usr/local/firebird/lib.

I ran ldconfig and it worked like bingo...
Kurt.



________________________________
From: Kurt Federspiel <federonline@...>
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:14:46 PM
Subject: [firebird-support] SUSE 64-bit question


I just started porting another application to SUSE 10, FB 2.1. I thought I'd ask here before ripping software out and reinstalling. ..

When I link, I get the following error message:
...skipping incompatible /usr/local/lib/ libfbclient. so when searching for -lfbclient
...cannot find -lfbclient

Do I accidentally have a 32-bit FB installed on a 64-bit system, or is there something else I should be looking for?

Thanks.
Kurt.