Notes on building Firebird 2.5.4 on Alpine Linux (in docker)

instructions.txt

apk add --no-cache --virtual=build-dependencies build-base ncurses-dev icu-dev tar
apk add --no-cache --virtual=build-dependencies --repository http://dl-3.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/ shadow

mkdir /work && cd /work
wget -O firebird-source.tar.bz2 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/firebird/firebird/2.5.4-Release/Firebird-2.5.4.26856-0.tar.bz2
tar --strip=1 -xf firebird-source.tar.bz2

#Patch rwlock.h (this has been fixed in later release of firebird 3.x)
sed -i '194s/.*/#if 0/'  src/common/classes/rwlock.h

#Patch perf.h (libio.h is not available on Alpine)
sed -i '35s/.*/ /'  src/jrd/perf.h

export PREFIX=/usr/local/firebird

./configure --enable-superserver \
        --prefix=${PREFIX} --with-fbbin=${PREFIX}/bin --with-fbsbin=${PREFIX}/bin --with-fblib=${PREFIX}/lib \
        --with-fbinclude=${PREFIX}/include --with-fbdoc=${PREFIX}/doc --with-fbudf=${PREFIX}/UDF \
        --with-fbsample=${PREFIX}/examples --with-fbsample-db=${PREFIX}/examples/empbuild --with-fbhelp=${PREFIX}/help \
        --with-fbintl=${PREFIX}/intl --with-fbmisc=${PREFIX}/misc --with-fbplugins=${PREFIX} \
        --with-fblog=/var/firebird/log --with-fbglock=/var/firebird/run \
        --with-fbconf=/var/firebird/etc --with-fbmsg=${PREFIX} \
        --with-fbsecure-db=/var/firebird/system --with-system-icu
make


make silent_install
#TODO: Change Password
#TODO: Convert into a dockerfile

apk del build-dependencies