From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 17 3: 0: 1 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 8247837B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 03:00:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 720E843F75 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:59:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B9C2F9; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:59:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BB6D12FDDB7; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:59:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:59:53 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: taxman , matt@gsicomp.on.ca, Pranas Baliuka , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SAPDB port for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030217105953.GW81356@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Emmerton , taxman , matt@gsicomp.on.ca, Pranas Baliuka , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <010b01c2d3d1$06a11200$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <200302142122.00715.taxman@acd.net> <20030215142150.L74555@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030215142150.L74555@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # matt@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca / 2003-02-15 14:23:02 -0500: > 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.) good news! however, they don't seem to be terribly interested: http://listserv.sap.com/pipermail/sapdb.general/2003-February/017609.html -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message