RE: .so version numbers for dlopen'd objects

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@symas.com>]

--On Tuesday, May 22, 2018 7:18 PM -0700 "Paul B. Henson" <henson@acm.org> 
wrote:

> The documentation currently says to use the .la file:
>
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/slapdconf2.html#cn=module
>
> Although under linux I've always just used the .so file myself. Getting
> rid of the .la would require a documentation update and also possibly
> config changes for everybody who listened to the documentation :).

The admin guide contains examples, is not authoritative, and may not apply 
to all cases (For example, statically built modules wouldn't work with the 
config you noted).  The manual pages are the authoritative documentation, 
and they explicitly allow for either the .la or .so files:

moduleload <filename>
             Specify  the  name of a dynamically loadable module to load. 
The
             filename may be an absolute path name or a simple filename. 
Non-
             absolute  names are searched for in the directories specified 
by
             the modulepath option. This option and the modulepath option 
are
             only usable if slapd was compiled with --enable-modules.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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