ports/64307: [NEW PORT] databases/linux-unixODBC: RPM of unixODBC (required to bring dbdesigner4 to FreeBSD)

[Michael Ranner]

The following reply was made to PR ports/64307; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Ranner <mranner at jawa.at>
To: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org,
	Mark Linimon <linimon at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/64307: [NEW PORT] databases/linux-unixODBC: RPM of unixODBC (required to bring dbdesigner4 to FreeBSD)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:07:48 +0200

 Am Montag, 23. August 2004 12:57 schrieben Sie:
 > Michael Ranner wrote:
 > > Because dbdesigner4 is a Kylix compiled Linux application which will
 > > not run
 > > with native unixODBC [...]
 >
 > It seems like DBDesigner 4 is open source, are the any problems to have
 > a native FreeBSD version?
 
 Yes DbDesginer is GPL, but once again, Kylix, which is needed to compile 
 DbDesigner, from Borland runs only on Linux. Kylix did not run on FreeBSD so 
 there may be no native port. DbDesigner needs also DBExpress runtime libs 
 from Borland which also exist only on Linux or Windows.
 
 Regards
 
 Michael