Using system libtdb in Samba4

[simo]

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 16:22 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> simo schrieb:
> > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 14:41 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >> simo schrieb:
> >>> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 13:45 +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >>>> Andrew Bartlett schrieb:
> >>>>> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:14 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >>>>>> I'm having trouble with Samba4, now that I have it linking against the
> >>>>>> system libtdb.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I wonder is using the system libtdb is incompatible with the way
> >>>>>> smbscript is built?
> >>>>> It seems that ejs just shows up one aspect of this problem.  We also
> >>>>> have this problem in samldb.so, where it tries to open templates.ldb
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Perhaps being in a shared lib messes with the duplicate open detection?
> >>>> It seems I have the same problem on ubuntu hardy...
> >>>>
> >>>> But I'm not sure it's the system libtdb, because the duplicate check is
> >>>> done outside of libtdb in lib/tdb_wrap.c, but it's likely that it's
> >>>> loaded multiple times
> >>> If symbols are resolved libraries are not loaded more then once.
> >>>
> >>> On the contrary static linking may end up (and it did) with multiple
> >>> copies of the same library and globals that are not anymore shared by
> >>> all parts of the software.
> >> we do link everything into the shared modules and load them all...
> > 
> > I know,
> > and I am working with Jelmer to fix the problem.
> 
> I have a almost finished patch to do fix this, I'll post it later when
> it's tested.

Cool,
thanks!

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. <ssorce at redhat.com>