# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-15 14:23:02 -0500:
> 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.)
good news! however, they don't seem to be terribly interested:
http://listserv.sap.com/pipermail/sapdb.general/2003-February/017609.html
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