[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#524052: Bug#524052: firebird2.1-common: Home made UDF cannot use libib_utils.so

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Damyan Ivanov, Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 09:26:47PM +0200 |=-
> Actualy, reality turned differently. The patch was becoming rather 
> invasive and therefore I backed up a little. The current firebrd2.5 
> packages provide /usr/lib/libib_util.so in the libib-util package. 
> That can be used both for linking against and at run-time.
> 
> Now the only question remains if this can be used on 2.1 and 2.0, 
> similarly to libfbclient2. It exports only two functions -- 
> ib_util_init and ib_util_malloc. I guess the semantics are the same, 
> but am not sure of the internals.
> 
> I'll ask firebird-devel.

With thekind assistance of Alex Peshkoff (of firebird-devel), this can 
finally be fixed.

The ib_util library in firebird2.5 (to be found in the libib-util 
package in Debian) can work with 2.5 and prior servers.

So by installing libib-util, your UDF shall run just fine, also across 
firebird server upgrades.

Pierre, please give it a try and report back if it helps.

I intent to add Suggests: libib-util to the next uploads.
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