Using system libtdb in Samba4

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher schrieb:
> 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.

here's the branch, we build everything static without .a files,
using MERGED_OBJ instead of STATIC_LIBRARY in the build system.

http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=metze/samba/wip.git;a=shortlog;h=v4-0-merged-obj

I need to clean this up a bit more, but it passes make quicktest.

metze


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