FireBird/LibreOffice: fb_config/pkg-config, thread-safety, eager caching

[Popa Adrian Marius]

Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel <at> mamane.lu> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> My "git pull" today brought the firebird work in. Cool!
> 
> 1) I notice that Debian has neither fb_config, nor fbembed.pc; are
>    these part of the upstream build (and then it is a bug in Debian
>    that they are not in the packages)? Do other distros have them?
> 
> 2) This is a bit scary in the Debian package description of
>    libfbembed:
> 
>     Contrary to libfbclient, libfbembed is not thread-safe.

Description is wrong , i will change it 

The embedded libraries — -libfbembed.so on POSIX and fbembed.dll on Windows- 
— are now multi-thread-capable and thread-safe, so they can be used in 
multi-threaded applications.

http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-2-5-release-description/