Re: (ITS#5983) ldappasswd returns "Additional info: password hash failed" in Solaris 10 SPARC

[mariusp44@gmail.com]

Thanks for your help.

Would you be able to email your Makefile that you generated for gcc
4.0.3 on Solaris/SPARC?

I am seriously missing something. I installed lated Sun Studio 12 and
compiled with it and it's the same problem.

/M.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:49 PM,  <hyc@symas.com> wrote:
> mariusp44@gmail.com wrote:
>> as I have pointed out in earlier post not only it doesn't work when I
>> compile it myself but also the one that was downloaded form
>> sunfreeware.com. It is not possible to tell what version of gcc was
>> used to compile openldap that is distributed but explanation that it
>> doesn't work because of compiler bug seems to me highly unlikely.
>> Unless you can specifically point to which bug in gcc on SPARC
>> contributes to this erratic behaviour of openldap.
>
> It's not our responsibility to do your legwork for you. You can easily email
> the maintainers at sunfreeware.com and ask them. Since they currently host gcc
> 3.4.6 on their site it's a safe bet they're still using gcc 3.4.x overall.
>
> Fyi, I have just now built the 2.4.15 source using gcc 4.0.3 on SPARC/Solaris
> and all of the hash mechanisms work fine. I don't have a gcc 3.x build handy
> on my system, nor do I see any reason to install a known-bad compiler just to
> further demonstrate what has already been plainly documented by other folks.
>>
>> Either way, thanks for comments.
>>
>> /M.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:56 PM,<hyc@symas.com>  wrote:
>>> ando@sys-net.it wrote:
>>>> mariusp44@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> I have just compiled and tested 2.4.15 and result is same: cleartext,
>>>>> md5 and sha works, smd5, ssha and crypt doesn't.
>>>>>
>>>>> Solaris 10 SPARC latest, gcc 3.4.3, Berkeley DB 4.7.25, opessl 0.9.8j.
>>>> I have no chance to test on that arch.  You should figure our why those
>>>> hashes are not supported.  Did you enable crypt (--enable-crypt)?
>>> gcc 3.4.3 was released November 4 2004 http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/
>>>
>>> and is known to have many bugs. It's also already known that old gcc releases
>>> have other problems on Sparc. (E.g. ITS#5875.)
>>>
>>> Please use a working compiler.
>>>
>>> As a workaround, recompile the offending functions with optimization disabled.
>>> That usually helps in cases like this.
>>>
>>> There is no bug in OpenLDAP Software here, this ITS will be closed.
>>>
>>> --
>>>    -- Howard Chu
>>>    CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
>>>    Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
>>>    Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
>   -- Howard Chu
>   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
>   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
>   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/
>
>
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