Hi Folks:

Is it reasonable to build Firebird from source for my OpenSolaris system? It's a modest AMD Athlon x2 PC.

I've recently returned to Solaris to put together a web browser. Not for production but as a resource for development.

I've built openSSL and Apache from source, without any particular problem, and set them up in the /opt/local directory just the way I want. I've used the compiler from Sun's Studio development environment.

I'd like to put Firebird on this PC as well, again, not for heavy production, but for development. So I can work on Firebird projects while I'm also doing web development. I realize that a production environment would call for a computer to handle each of these tasks.

So I'm wondering if it's reasonable to build and install Firebird from the source tarball, or if I'm better off sticking with the pre-built package. Has anyone built Firebird with Sun's compiler?

I don't have gcc installed, yet. That seems to always be an interminable exercise of finding that I can't install this because I haven't installed that yet, resulting in a half a dozen windows, each half way finished with building something gcc, or one of it's supporting packages, requires.

Thanks
Larry