Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:23:02 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> To: taxman <taxman@ACD.NET> Cc: matt@gsicomp.on.ca, Pranas Baliuka <pranas.baliuka@danet.lt>, "" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SAPDB port for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030215142150.L74555@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <200302142122.00715.taxman@acd.net> References: <GJEILDLAECGOPIJCPEFJMEGACHAA.pranas.baliuka@danet.lt> <010b01c2d3d1$06a11200$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <200302142122.00715.taxman@acd.net>
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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
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