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Re: how to compile recent openldap on Centos 5.5



2010/11/23 Aaron Richton <richton@nbcs.rutgers.edu>:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
>
>> I tried to compile the Release 2.4.23  of openldap on my centos 5.5
>> server.
>
> [...]
>>
>> configure: error: BerkeleyDB version incompatible with BDB/HDB backends
>
> [...]
>>
>> db4-4.3.29-10.el5_5.2
>
> [...]
>>
>> What may I do wrong? Any sugesstions?
>
> RHEL/CentOS db4-4.3 has proven unreliable for use with OpenLDAP Software.
> You will have to use a version of BerkeleyDB that is not provided by those
> vendors. One option is of course to roll your own packages. However, many
> RHEL/CentOS users on the list base off of Buchan Milne's RPMs. There is some
> (occasionally hard-learned) institutional knowledge in his build process
> that you would likely benefit from. You can find references/links to these
> in the openldap-technical/openldap-software list archives.

If this can help, LTB-project also provides RPMs for CentOS 5:
http://ltb-project.org/wiki/documentation/openldap-rpm

Clément.