RE: back-perl and password/user synchronization

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

Sounds to me like you're trying to mix the 2.1 back-perl with the 2.0 main
slapd code. Won't work.

  -- 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: Kervin Pierre [mailto:kpierre@fit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:25 PM
> To: Howard Chu
> Cc: lukeh@PADL.COM; openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: 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
> >>
> >>--
> >>Luke Howard | lukehoward.com
> >>PADL Software | www.padl.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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