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+{stdenv, fetchurl, libedit, automake, autoconf, libtool
+,
+  # icu = null: use icu which comes with firebird
+
+  # icu = pkgs.icu => you may have trouble sharing database files with windows
+  # users if "Collation unicode" columns are being used
+  # windows icu version is *30.dll, however neither the icu 3.0 nor the 3.6
+  # sources look close to what ships with this package.
+  # Thus I think its best to trust firebird devs and use their version
+
+  # icu version missmatch may cause such error when selecting from a table:
+  # "Collation unicode for character set utf8 is not installed"
+
+  # icu 3.0 can still be built easily by nix (by dropping the #elif case and
+  # make | make)
+  icu ? null
+
+, superServer ? false
+, port ? 3050
+, serviceName ? "gds_db"
+}:
+
+/*
+   there are 3 ways to use firebird:
+   a) superserver
+    - one process, one thread for each connection
+   b) classic
+    - is built by default
+    - one process for each connection
+    - on linux direct io operations (?)
+   c) embedded.
+
+   manual says that you usually don't notice the difference between a and b.
+
+   I'm only interested in the embedder shared libary for now.
+   So everything isn't tested yet
+
+*/
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  version = "2.5.7.27050-0";
+  name = "firebird-${version}";
+
+  # enableParallelBuilding = false; build fails
+
+  # http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-3246
+  preConfigure = ''
+    makeFlags="$makeFlags CPU=$NIX_BUILD_CORES"
+  '';
+
+  configureFlags =
+    [ "--with-serivec-port=${builtins.toString port}"
+      "--with-service-name=${serviceName}"
+      # "--disable-static"
+      "--with-system-editline"
+      "--with-fblog=/var/log/firebird"
+      "--with-fbconf=/etc/firebird"
+      "--with-fbsecure-db=/var/db/firebird/system"
+    ]
+    ++ (stdenv.lib.optional  (icu != null) "--with-system-icu")
+    ++ (stdenv.lib.optional superServer "--enable-superserver");
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/firebird/Firebird-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "06hp6bq5irqvm3h03s79qjgcc3jsjpq150y9aq7anklx9v4nhfqa";
+  };
+
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
+  # configurePhase = ''
+  #   sed -i 's@cp /usr/share/automake-.*@@' autogen.sh
+  #   sh autogen.sh $configureFlags --prefix=$out
+  # '';
+  buildInputs = [libedit icu automake autoconf libtool];
+
+  # TODO: Probably this hase to be tidied up..
+  # make install requires beeing. disabling the root checks
+  # dosen't work. Copying the files manually which can be found
+  # in ubuntu -dev -classic, -example packages:
+  # maybe some of those files can be removed again
+  installPhase = ''cp -r gen/firebird $out'';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "SQL relational database management system";
+    homepage = https://www.firebirdnews.org;
+    license = ["IDPL" "Interbase-1.0"];
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.marcweber];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+
+}