Re: (ITS#5354) slapd repeatedly hangs and stops reponding

[ando@sys-net.it]

h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no wrote:
> rra@stanford.edu writes:
>> Specifically, the workaround is to compile the code with the upstream
>> libtool instead of with Debian's libtool, since upstream libtool
>> imports all module symbols into the global namespace.  Debian's
>> libtool has been modified to not do this because it causes all sorts
>> of other problems in the general case, but not doing this breaks the
>> meta backend because it wants to reference symbols from the bdb
>> backend.
> 
> s/bdb/ldap/.  Sounds like a fix would be to build back-ldap statically
> instead of dynamically on Debian if back-meta is built too.

The reason back-meta uses code from back-ldap is that they share a lot
of features.  Probably, they could be moved into slapd, since they might
be useful in other (proxy-related) future modules?  That would be a lot
of reworking, though.

p.



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