From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 18:20: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 613D437B40A for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:20:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.64.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6375143FBD for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:20:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from Knoppix ([207.179.85.77]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:20:11 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: taxman To: "Matthew Emmerton" , "Pranas Baliuka" , Subject: Re: SAPDB port for FreeBSD Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:22:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <010b01c2d3d1$06a11200$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <010b01c2d3d1$06a11200$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200302142122.00715.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Feb 2003 02:20:11.0862 (UTC) FILETIME=[C49E4760:01C2D498] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 14 February 2003 03:30 am, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > I was surprised; there are no SAPDB (www.sapdb.org) in > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/databases.html list! > > Has someone tried to install SAPDB on FreeBSD? Is it possible to crea= te > new port? sure, if it runs on FreeBSD. Look for the porting handbook. If you're = the=20 only one that wants to use it, you may have to do the porting. =20 > I tried about a year or so ago, but gave up. The SAPDB "build tools" a= re > extremely Linux-centric (they expect a LSB-compliant filesystem layout,= and > it's next to impossible to trick it, as paths are hardcoded everywhere)= =2E > Furthermore, the actual SAPDB product is again, Linux-centric and has a= ll > the warts that one would expect. >=20 > I eventually gave up and just ran it in Linux emulation -- much less ef= fort > than making a FreeBSD port. Lots of ports run under linux emulation. =20 http://www.freebsd.org/ports/linux.html Did you get it working well under emulation on FreeBSD? If so, then it w= ould=20 be a good candidate for a port (if anyone wants to use it and do the port= ing) Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message