On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, taxman wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 03:30 am, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > I was surprised; there are no SAPDB (www.sapdb.org) in > > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/databases.html list! > > > Has someone tried to install SAPDB on FreeBSD? Is it possible to create > > new port? > > > > I tried about a year or so ago, but gave up. The SAPDB "build tools" are > > extremely Linux-centric (they expect a LSB-compliant filesystem layout, and > > it's next to impossible to trick it, as paths are hardcoded everywhere). > > Furthermore, the actual SAPDB product is again, Linux-centric and has all > > the warts that one would expect.
Actually, I just took another look at this and things seems to be a bit less hairy than they were when I first looked at it. (For example, it uses autoconf now.) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
