MacPorts shall never touch my OS X Systems.
On Sep 19, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Paul Beach wrote: > > I need to post this on devel to canvass some opinions re. Firebird 3.x on > MacOSX. > > As you may know in firebird 3.0 on posix now relies on a OS pre-installed > version > of ICU for both development and runtime, rather than what was our own build > of ICU. Although this > has its inherent problems (databases need to backed up and restored across > different versions > of ICU) it does make our use of ICU easier, that is, until we get to MacOSX. > > OSX only has a core ICU install by default, Firebird needs more. So the > solution from > a build perspective is to install MacPorts ICU and link to that, however that > now creates > additional external dependencies... > > Does that mean - in future - that a Firebird user on MaOSX needs to install > ICU via MacPorts > into opt/local/lib? Or should I try and ship the ICU libs with the Framework, > along with any > relevant dependent libs? > > The same is also true for the usage of libtommath... > > A find / libicu on my Mac seems to indicate that other software that uses ICU > does ship ICU > with with their frameworks. > > Comments? > > I am at the point where we need to make a decision as I am currently > re-writing the > MacOSX Firebird installer for Firebird 3.0 > > Regards > Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
