Ubuntu
firebird2.0 package

Turn on COBOL language in Firebird SQL Pre-processor

Bug #198383 reported by Richard Gunn on 2008-03-04

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firebird2.0 (Debian)	Fix Released	Undecided	Damyan Ivanov
	firebird2.0 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Popa Adrian Marius

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firebird2.0-super and firebird2.0-classic

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

I'm using OpenCobol on Ubuntu and would like to pre-process my COBOL code in order to access Firebird databases. This can be achieved by using the Firebird SQL pre-processor, GPRE. Unfortunately, the Firebird/Interbase SQL pre-processor (GPRE) has been compiled with the default language options only. This means it will only pre-process C and C++.

I downloaded the source for the entire Firebird suite and found that there is an option in the build configuration file to switch on the COBOL pre-processor in GPRE. The build option is --with-gpre-cobol . Enabling this option won't guarantee seamless integration between OpenCobol and Firebird, but it is a big step in the right direction.

I would like to request that future builds of the Firebird RDBMS include this option. It will make OpenCobol far more useful on Debian/Ubuntu than it currently is.

See original description

Murat Gunes (mgunes) on 2008-03-04

Changed in firebird2.0:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

Richard Gunn (ubuntu-deckard) on 2008-03-04

description:

updated

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Popa Adrian Marius (mapopa) wrote on 2008-03-14:

i can create an package with -with-gpre-cobol if you want to and add it into my ppa archive

Changed in firebird2.0:
assignee:	nobody → mapopa
status:	New → In Progress

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Damyan Ivanov (dmn-debian) wrote on 2008-03-28:

Please someone report this on the Debian BTS to remind me to add it in the packages for Debian too.

Damyan Ivanov (dmn-debian) on 2008-05-21

Changed in firebird2.0:
assignee:	nobody → dmn-debian
status:	New → In Progress

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Damyan Ivanov (dmn-debian) wrote on 2008-05-23:

Changes:
firebird2.0 (2.0.3.12981.ds1-15) unstable; urgency=low
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   * port-arm.patch: s/$/_/ in src/gpre/cob.cpp to fix FTBFS on arm
   * add --with-gpre-cobol to ./configure flags. LP#198383
   * refresh all patches with --no-timestamps --no-index -p ab