RE: Always static link in OpenLDAP 2.1?

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

My personal view - automake is junk. It is not capable of generating
makefiles for the slapd backends, anyway, so don't bother. If anyone else has
a different view, feel free to chime in, but I would vote strongly against
it.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Ganesan R
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:03 PM
> To: openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Always static link in OpenLDAP 2.1?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running into trouble linking sasl libraries to OpenLDAP
> in the 2.1
> tree. While analyzing the problem, I noticed that executables
> are always
> being linked staticly in the 2.1 tree. Further investigation pointed
> to following lines in build/top.mk
>
> LTLINK   = $(LIBTOOL) --mode=link \
> 	$(CC) -static $(LT_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LTFLAGS)
>
> This effectively makes all executables static. Is this
> intentional? Removing
> -static fixed my problem.
>
> Incidentally, OpenLDAP TODO mentions a "Medium" project to
> "Update to latest
> autoconf and friends". I can work on this. Does this only
> apply to autoconf
> and libtool? Is it okay if I move redo the build using the
> latest automake
> too.
>
> Ganesan
>
> --
> Ganesan R
>
>