need help with LDAP plug-in code and liblber dependency

[Will Fiveash]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 06:02:20PM -0500, Will Fiveash wrote:
> I'm doing some hacking to get the new MIT LDAP plug-in code to work and
> while I've got everything to compile I find that the kldap.so in
> src/plugins/kdb/ldap insists on having a dependency on:
> 
> liblber-2.2.so.7 =>      (file not found)
> 
> I believe that this dependency is not necessary in Solaris because
> libldap contains the exported liblber functions (I think).  I've
> searched all the files and tried to convince the build logic not to link
> kldap.so with -llber but I can't seem to get rid of that
> liblber-2.2.so.7 dependency.  Any advice here is welcome.

I just figured out why I was seeing that liblber-2.2.so.7 dependency
(kldap.so had a dependency on /usr/local/lib/libkdb_ldap.so.1 which
still had a dependency on liblber-2.2.so.7 because I had not installed
the newer code).

> As an aside, I'd be happy to contribute changes back to get the MIT LDAP
> plug-in to work with the native LDAP but I need advice here as to the
> appropriate files to change (probably related to autoconf).

Still could use advice here.

-- 
Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Austin, TX, USA (TZ=CST6CDT)