From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 15 11:26:40 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 0101037B401 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:26:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts10.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D46843F85 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.176.5]) by tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030215192634.BXDT26691.tomts10-srv.bellnexxia.net@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:26:34 -0500 Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (matt@localhost.gsicomp.on.ca [127.0.0.1]) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1FJN4jC074563; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:23:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id h1FJN33b074560; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:23:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:23:02 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton To: taxman Cc: matt@gsicomp.on.ca, Pranas Baliuka , "" Subject: Re: SAPDB port for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200302142122.00715.taxman@acd.net> Message-ID: <20030215142150.L74555@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> References: <010b01c2d3d1$06a11200$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <200302142122.00715.taxman@acd.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Fri, 14 Feb 2003, taxman wrote: > 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 create > > new port? > > > > I tried about a year or so ago, but gave up. The SAPDB "build tools" are > > extremely Linux-centric (they expect a LSB-compliant filesystem layout, and > > it's next to impossible to trick it, as paths are hardcoded everywhere). > > Furthermore, the actual SAPDB product is again, Linux-centric and has all > > the warts that one would expect. Actually, I just took another look at this and things seems to be a bit less hairy than they were when I first looked at it. (For example, it uses autoconf now.) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message