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

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

On 9/5/22 12:59, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
> 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?

I do not know what library do you talk about.
There are many of them - and rules for them vary slightly.

>
>>> 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.
>

If you just shell scripts and send me changes I can do the rest myself...