Re: Problem when using ldap_rename_s (ITS#1184)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

At 03:34 AM 7/6/2001, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>I committed a couple of patches that make back-ldbm honor '+' 
>concatenated attrs in adding/deleting attrs when modifying the 
>rdn. It needs -DMULTIATTRVAL_RDN in back-ldnm/Makefile to compile.
>
>It worked in simple cases, I didn't do an exaustive check.
>All the modrdn stuff seems to be somewhat fragile, because
>changes are made and tested step by step and there's no rollback 
>mechanism.
>
>If it works fine, I can apply the same changes to back-bdb.
>
>PS: Note that this breaks slapd/tools because they cannot resolve
>the slap_mods_free() function; it should be moved to some library.
>Kurt, what fix do you suggest?

Likely the best thing to do is to move the functions
into a separate file mods.c and then add the mods.o to
SLAPD_OBJS in tools/Makefile.in.

Try your best to avoid avoiding sucking in unnecessary
pieces into the tools...

Kurt