I am responsible for some servers that are still running the LTS Release Ubuntu 8.04 and which I want to upgrade to Firebird 2.5.1, preferable using a Debian package rather than building each one from source - the production servers don't normally have all the build tools anyway.
This seems to work OK, using the patch from ftp://ftp.modsoftsys.net/public/firebird2.5-backports/firebird2.5_2.5.1.26351.ds4-2~bpo60+1.debian.tar.gz A few tweaks are needed: 1. Upgrade to autoconf 2.63 2. downgrading the Debian Rules for compatibility with debhelper 5 - changing dh_prep to "dh_clean -k" and commenting out "dh_lintian" However on building the packages, while the packages do seem to build OK, I am getting warning such as dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol ucnv_fromUChars_3_8 used by debian/firebird2.5-server-common/usr/lib/firebird/2.5/plugins/libfbtrace.so found in none of the libraries. It looks like the trace API is using some library version that is not present with the 8.04 release (Kernel 2.4.24, glibc 2.7). Does anyone know if this is likely to cause a problem other than with the trace API (which is not used in the intended application). Tony Whyman MWA Software ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
