Re: OPENLDAP_AC

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Aaron Richton wrote:
> Some sort of method to make adding local overlays easier would be nice. We
> compile overlays static, so adding local_overlay.c means hacking
> portable.h to define SLAPD_OVER_LOCAL (admittedly unnecessary for
> something that I know will always be static, but we try to be consistent
> with the others) and overlays.c to include the _init function. I'm not
> sure if there'd be some acceptable way of grokking multiple "slapo-"
> directories/assuming anything in "overlays" needs these entries/etc., but
> it would be nice if autoconf was brilliant enough that one could cp
> local_overlay.[ch] slapd/overlays, re-run configure, and have these things
> figured out. (If the price of this is including some @@UGLY_AUTOCONF@@ or
> something in my overlay, that's OK.)
>   
Well, the configure script generates the static backend initializers 
now; it could just as easily do that for static overlays too. I guess 
this is something we can add after OPENLDAP_AC merges back into the 
trunk. Picking up the list of configurable overlays by examining the 
source tree would be interesting...

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