{stdenv, fetchurl, libedit, ncurses, 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 build 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 = "2.5.2.26540-0"; 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 = "0887a813wffp44hnc2gmwbc4ylpqw3fh3hz3bf6q3648344a9fdv"; }; # 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 = http://www.firebirdnews.org; license = ["IDPL" "Interbase-1.0"]; maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.marcweber]; platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux; }; }