Re: ltdl support in 2.3.x

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Saturday, October 29, 2005 2:18 PM -0700 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" 
<Kurt@OpenLDAP.org> wrote:

> At 01:02 PM 10/29/2005, Albert Chin wrote:
> > Any reason libtool's ltdl wasn't included directly into 2.3.x rather
> > than relying on the version provided by the system?
>
> s/system/build environment/  (noting that we don't care whether
> its included as part of the operating system, or provided
> otherwise).
>
> Anyways, as with every other library OpenLDAP Software is dependent
> on (which can be many and varied depending on configure options),
> we do not provide independently-developed dependent libraries
> as they are, well, independently developed.  We rather not
> maintain a separate copy or the issues that result from doing
> so.

And some of us don't want OpenLDAP linked against libltdl.so at all.

--Quanah

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