[Package Request] Firebird DB server

[vitkabele]

Software Name

Firebird

Brief Description

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, MacOS and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.

Website

https://firebirdsql.org/

Documentation

https://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-rdbms/

Build/Installation documentation

https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/building-the-code/

Source code

https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird

OpenSource License

other (please specify below)

Other License

Mozilla Public License

[hgy59]

@vitkabele I already tried to build firebird, but it failed to cross compile:

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for /proc/self/maps... configure: error: cannot check for file existence when cross compiling
make[2]: *** [../../mk/spksrc.configure.mk:57: configure_target] Error 1

So instead of building a package for x64 archs only, it would be better to use docker images for firebird.

[vitkabele]

Oh yes, I am already past this issue. What you encountered happens when you configure target with GNU_CONFIGURE = 1, i.e. if you provide --target and --host options to ./configure.
Firebird itself has cross builds for e.g. android on aarch64, but you must use ./configure --with-cross-build=....
It already works for me, but I still have to install libtomcrypt-dev and libtommath-dev to the container. I work on porting these to native/libtomcrypt and native/libtommath. Then it shouldn't be problem to build at least for x64 and aarch64 models.
Feel free to check my progress at https://github.com/vitkabele/spksrc/tree/firebird