Hi, On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:31:22PM +0300, Andres Gomez wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 11:25 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:18:06PM +0300, Andres Gomez wrote: > > > On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 20:20 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote: > > > ... > > > > > The firebird specific libraries (fb builds its own versions > > > > > libicuuc/libicudata/etc.) are currently in > > > > > install/program/firebird/lib > > > > > > > > really? it bundles its own ICU? argh... can you teach it to use the > > > > LO's ICU instead? no reason why we'd need to ship 2 sets of ICU > > > > libraries. > > > ... > > > > > > As I was writing in the wiki: > > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Development/Base/FirebirdSQL#Compilation > > > > > > We may hit some problems if we use LO's or systems ICU with the table > > > indexes. > > > > > > I think the safest would actually be to use always FB's internal ICU > > > copy but other possible approaches are possible in order to face this > > > problem. > > > > I think you are thinking too short. > > > > Nnote that most distros will simply build with > > system-firebird. (and whatever THAT one is built against - looks > > like that it's *external* ICU here: > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/libfbembed2.5) > ... > > That's why in the initial discussions we were already talking about > removing the possibility of "system-firebird" and always using an > internal compilation: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Development/Base/FirebirdSQL#Compilation > http://firebird.1100200.n4.nabble.com/Firebird-as-backend-in-LibreOffice-td4633330.html
If this is the current option, could we please consider the possibility to drop the whole idea and just stay with hsqldb? With my distro hat on, I do not see any improvement with having to bundle hsqldb vs. having to bundle firebird. D. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
