Re: [Firebird-devel] Building Firebird Linux with --with-builtin-tommath

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

On 9/3/22 16:12, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> I'm investigating ways of packaging Firebird Embedded for Java, so it 
> can be used as drop-in Java library (which is then unpacked to a 
> temporary directory automatically).
>
> Given Firebird complains about missing libtommath when I use the 
> normal build, and I don't want to impose on users to install 
> additional libraries, I tried a custom build (from current state of 
> v4.0-release branch) with:
>
> ./autogen.sh --with-builtin-tommath --with-builtin-tomcrypt 
> --enable-binreloc
> make
> make dist
>
> I have a problem with libtommath in this build:
>
> gen/buildroot/usr/local/firebird/lib contains libtomcrypt.so.1.0.1 
> (and symlinks libtomcrypt.so and libtomcrypt.so.1), but no libtommath 
> files, these are in a .tm subdirectory of lib, so
>
> gen/buildroot/usr/local/firebird/lib/.tm/libtommath.so.0
> gen/buildroot/usr/local/firebird/lib/.tm/libtommath.so.0.0.41
> gen/buildroot/usr/local/firebird/lib/.tm/libtommath.so
>
> I would have expected these files directly in 
> gen/buildroot/usr/local/firebird/lib/, not in 
> gen/buildroot/usr/local/firebird/lib/.tm/. Trying to load embedded 
> this way complains about missing libtommath.
>

This is solved by install script - it creates symlink to 
/inst/path/firebird/lib/.tm/libtommath.so.0 in system lib directory 
(provided it's missing).
That's done this way in order to make it possible to use system tommath 
when present.