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

[Mark R. <ma...@la...>]

On 05-09-2022 11:50, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
> On 9/5/22 12:31, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>> On 05-09-2022 11:23, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> That is inconsistent compared to what is done for 
>> --with-builtin-tomcrypt. I explicitly requested 
>> --with-builtin-tommath, so I expect it to end up directly in the lib 
>> directory like tomcrypt.
> 
> This switch works another way.

It seems to me it does the same thing, but for a different library, so 
why does it do so in an entirely different way?

>> If I understand you correctly, I will need to massage what I have in 
>> buildroot even further to get a usable build. I won't be using the 
>> install script, because I don't want to install it, I want to package 
>> it for an embedded deployment.
> 
> Yes, you need to change something not suitable for embedded, I even 
> expect you to add configure switch for it - we never deployed FB for 
> linux w/o install script.

We'll see, if I can find the motivation and energy to figure this out.

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel