Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:10:28 GMT From: Michael Ranner <mranner@jawa.at> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/64307: [NEW PORT] databases/linux-unixODBC: RPM of unixODBC (required to bring dbdesigner4 to FreeBSD) Message-ID: <200408231110.i7NBASj4035519@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/64307; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Michael Ranner <mranner@jawa.at> To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: ports/64307: [NEW PORT] databases/linux-unixODBC: RPM of unixODBC (required to bring dbdesigner4 to FreeBSD) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:07:48 +0200 Am Montag, 23. August 2004 12:57 schrieben Sie: > Michael Ranner wrote: > > Because dbdesigner4 is a Kylix compiled Linux application which will > > not run > > with native unixODBC [...] > > It seems like DBDesigner 4 is open source, are the any problems to have > a native FreeBSD version? Yes DbDesginer is GPL, but once again, Kylix, which is needed to compile DbDesigner, from Borland runs only on Linux. Kylix did not run on FreeBSD so there may be no native port. DbDesigner needs also DBExpress runtime libs from Borland which also exist only on Linux or Windows. Regards Michael
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