Re: BP build OpenLDAP and lmdb packages

[Abdelhamid Meddeb <abdelhamid@meddeb.net>]

Hi,

Thanks to all.
Now I anderstand more about that
It's a bit unfortunate that it's so. But most important is reliability 
and performance.

Cheers.

Le 27/09/2015 23:07, Howard Chu a écrit :
>
> OpenLDAP source code is released as a single unit. This situation is no
> different than building slapd itself against libldap_r. If you split
> things apart and mix versions, you can potentially break them.
>

Le 28/09/2015 17:58, Quanah Gibson-Mount a écrit :
> --On Monday, September 28, 2015 10:26 AM +0200 Michael Ströder
> <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Hmm, in the long run I'd like to see a single liblmdb being installed
> > with the accompanying tools system-wide just like the BDB libs/tools. I
> > understand that this would limit the freedom of developing/shipping an
> > OpenLDAP-specific "fork" in the OpenLDAP sources.
>
> Can't say I've necessarily seen that done with BDB either... Like RHEL
> and debian tend to have multiple bdb versions available, with the tools
> named things like db42_dump etc, so that the version specific utilities
> can be used.
>
> On the LMDB side, we're missing things like libtool versioning that
> would allow this to be more easily possible.  Also, having it so 0.9.x
> is backwards compatible with 0.9.y, y < x, would make things a bit
> easier to deal with as well.
>
> --Quanah
>
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>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Platform Architect
> Zimbra, Inc.
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