On 06/17/2016 04:12 PM, Fulvio Senore wrote: > I have developed a couple of open source programs that use Firebird as > an embedded database. The programs are some years old so they use > version 2.1. > > I am using an embedded setup under Linux with a copy of Firebird that I > compiled at the time and everything worked fine until now. I compiled in > an old distribution and I created an archive file that contained > everything is needed to run the programs: in this way I have been able > to have a single file that worked on every distribution. I do not have > the resources to build custom versions for different distributions. > > Now some users are reporting that the program does not run under newer > distributions because those distros ship with libncurses 6 and firebird > has been built against version 5. > The problem can be solved by installing the libncurses 5 package but it > looks like this package is not available under Arch, for example. > Moreover not all users are experienced enough to install that package. > > Of course I might build Firebird in a distribution using libncurses 6 > but this would require doubling the effort and users ought to know which > version to download. > > I think that a solution might be to statically link libncurses with > Firebird but I don't know if it would work. > I checked and the following files link to libncurses: > > libfbembed.so > intl/fbintl > bin/fb_lock_mgr
Not sure for 2.1 build process (unsupported version, sorry) but the only binary that actually needs curses is isql for readline's command line editor. > do you know if it is safe to statically link libncurses? as far as I know yes > My Linux knowledge is rather limited: if statically linking is safe do > you have suggestions on how to do it? Should I change something in the > makefiles yes replace -lncurses with /usr/lib/libncurses.a (or how is it called on your box) > or should I use some ambient variable or should I do something > else? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohomanageengine Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
