building firebird 2.1.x classic from source on ubuntu

cd /opt/build

wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/firebird/Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1.tar.bz2

tar -jxvf Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1.tar.bz2

cd Firebird-2.1.0.15999-Beta1

apt-get install automake libtool libreadline5-dev make btyacc bison gawk g++ xinetd

./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/firebird2.1.x

make

sudo make install

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