{stdenv, fetchurl, libedit, icu , 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 { name = "firebird-2.3.1"; configureFlags = [ "--with-serivec-port=${builtins.toString port}" "--with-service-name=${serviceName}" # "--with-system-icu" # "--with-system-editline" ] ++ (stdenv.lib.optional superServer "--enable-superserver=true"); src = fetchurl { url = mirror://sourceforge/firebird/files/2.1.3-Release/Firebird-2.1.3.18185-0.tar.bz2; sha256 = "0a7xy016r0j1f97cf2lww8fkz1vlvvghrgv9ffz2i6f7ppacniw0"; }; buildInputs = [libedit icu]; # 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 = "firebird database engine"; homepage = http://www.firebirdnews.org; license = ["IDPL" "Interbase-1.0"]; maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.marcweber]; platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux; }; }