Using system libtdb in Samba4

[simo]

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.

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>