LO / Firebird DB Integration

[Andres Gomez]

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

Of course, maybe other options that I've not taken into account are
better.

Br.
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Andres Gomez
Computer Science Engineer
mailto:agomez at igalia.com
http://blogs.igalia.com/agomez/category/igaliacom/
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