Re: openldap 2.4.11 and test018

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Francis Swasey wrote:
> I have been driving myself nuts today.  I'm attempting to move to using
> DB 4.6.21 (plus the three patches) and have discovered (probably
> re-discovered) that building the backends as modules and then attempting
> to run "make tests" causes test018 to fail because bdb-mod can't resolve
> ldap_modify_ext.
>
> I can't find anything documented concerning this (README, INSTALL
> documents, FAQ, google search). But if I remove "--enable-modules" from
> the configure options, test018 runs just fine.
>
> Am I really this unique or have I missed some prominent statement that
> backend modules can not be tested?

No, this comes up from time to time and we've just never bothered to document 
it besides mentioning it on the -devel list.

It's not a problem with the bdb module, but with the back-ldap module. The 
solution is to make sure slapd is linked against the shared libldap; by 
default it's linked statically.

One could argue that this is a bug in the slapd Makefile; at some point in the 
past everything worked fine and then after a couple updates to libtool etc. 
the problem started cropping up. It hasn't been a big enough problem to 
warrant deeper investigation.

> If it matters, I'm compiling on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release
> 5.2 (Tikanga).

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