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Re: back-perl and password/user synchronization


Hi,

I've been working to get 2.0.23+back-perl to compile on the Win32/MSVC++ build with Win32 Perl from ActiveState.

Question about servers/slapd/back-perl/external.h ...

...
extern BI_db_config	perl_back_db_config;
extern BI_op_bind	perl_back_bind;
extern BI_op_search	perl_back_search;
...

These are 3 lines I copied at random from extern.h. The compiler complains about every 'extern' declaration in external.h, and frankly, I can't say I blame it.

Can anyone explain what these lines are doing.

I'm assuming that if it's a prototype for an external function it would be in the form...

extern return_type function_name( function_args );

but theses are not in that form. back-ldbm uses the extern prototype form and does compile, eg...

extern int ldbm_back_db_init LDAP_P (( BackendDB *bd ));
extern int ldbm_back_db_open LDAP_P (( BackendDB *bd ));

Can anyone shed some light on this for me please? Is this a GCC vs. MSVC++ thing?

--Kervin


Howard Chu wrote: 
Yes, in the time between since I wrote that response and now, I have updated
the back-perl code so that it compiles. I also fixed the compare operation,
but
I haven't tested it beyond that.

  -- 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: Luke Howard [mailto:lukeh@PADL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:25 AM
To: hyc@highlandsun.com
Cc: kpierre@fit.edu; openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: RE: back-perl and password/user synchronization




I don't think back-perl has even been supported on Unix for a couple of
years


back-perl built fine on Solaris 2.8 with 2.1.0 alpha, so I think
it is reasonably good shape.

regards,

-- Luke

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