From owner-freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 11:10:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E547916A4E3 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:10:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8E9C43D39 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:10:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i7NBASO0035520 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:10:28 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7NBASj4035519; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:10:28 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:10:28 GMT Message-Id: <200408231110.i7NBASj4035519@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Michael Ranner Subject: Re: ports/64307: [NEW PORT] databases/linux-unixODBC: RPM of unixODBC (required to bring dbdesigner4 to FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Michael Ranner List-Id: Ports bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:10:29 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/64307; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Michael Ranner To: Oliver Eikemeier Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon 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