Hi I maintain the PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper (FDW) for Firebird [1] and am planning to verify it against Firebird 4 to check for compatibility, new features which need supporting etc.
[1] https://github.com/ibarwick/firebird_fdw/ To which end I thought I'd try building it from source (which I've never done before for Firebird). Configuration done like this: ./configure --prefix=/opt/firebird4 \ --with-editline \ --with-service-port=3051 \ The actual "make" process went fine, following instructions found here: https://firebirdsql.org/en/building-the-code-posix/ but "make install" seems quite invasive as it requires root and complains if there's a running Firebird instance (I have 3.0.x running from standard packages), e.g. $ sudo make install Firebird 4.0.0.2178-ReleaseCandidate1.amd64 Installation Press Enter to start installation or ^C to abort An instance of the Firebird server seems to be running. Please quit all Firebird applications and then proceed. It also seems to want to copy files to "/usr/include/" (which would overwrite package-installed files and generally mess things up). What I would like to do is create a local installation in an arbitrary directory and run it independently from any existing installations for development purposes. Is this possible, and if so how? Thanks for any pointers Ian Barwick Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
