openSuse fbembed/fbclient linking issues due to incorrect fbembed.pc

[Michael Stahl]

On 20/08/13 08:18, Andrzej Hunt wrote:

> Additionally, I'm considering whether it's worthwhile specifically
> detecting the error that occurs when trying to open/create an embedded
> db with fbclient in order to show a more obvious dialog -- this should
> be fairly simple (I still need to make the error reporting a bit more
> user friendly anyway for fb).
> 
> Also, I could maybe adapt the Driver class to not supply
> "sdbc:embedded:firebird" as a supported url scheme when we are running
> fbclient, I still need to look at how this could be verified. This might
> not be such a good idea though since then trying to open a .odb with
> embedded firebird will probably result in a cryptic "driver not found"
> or similar error, whereas the above solution will result in a specific
> error message.

why not simply a build-time check, e.g. check (grep) in configure that
the link flags for firebird don't contain "fbclient" which is surely wrong.