Subject Re: [firebird-support] Re: how to change firebird 2.1.3 installation path
Author Philippe Makowski
2011/1/28 tomjanczkadao <tomjancz@...>
> > so your problem is with udf, not the install path
> >
> > did you try with Firebird Debian package ?
> > what is exactly your problem with udf ?
> >
>
> Default Debian's repository contains Firebird2.0 package only.
>
Squeeze will be stable in few days ;)
You can without problem use it

> The original problem is that rfunc udf library is not visible to Firebird:
> function Xxxx is not defined.
> module name or entrypoint could not be found.
>
where did you put the lib ?
did you checked firebird.conf ?

> I'm using rfunc for years, mostly on Windows machines.
> I know that rfunc needs firebird client library.
rfunc seems to be not maintained anymore

> On Linux machines it depends on distribution.
> I can't compile successfully rfunc from sources and I'm using compiled one found somewhere in web.
> This rfunc works OK with:
> 1. Ubuntu 10.10 server and FB2.1.3 SS from default apt repository;
> 2. CentOS 5 (i think it is ver.5) and FB2.1.3 CS from Your repository: baseurl=http://makowski.fedorapeople.org/fb21/centos/5/i386/ (thanks :))
for Centos you should better use Epel repository
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) now
http://makowski.fedorapeople.org/fb21 was only there for testing
before officially put in Epel


> I found that in both working cases above firebird is installed in /usr/lib/firebird. So I'm trying to install FB in the same path on Debian.
I'm not sure that the problem is there