[Samba] Samba 2.2.8 compile failure - Solaris 8, SunCC, LDAP

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dallas N Antley wrote:

> /- On Monday (3/17/2003 22:50) John H Terpstra <jht at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dallas N Antley wrote:
> >
> > > My apologies if this isn't the correct posting address -- I didn't see
> > > an obvious "report problems here" on the website.  Some of the code
> > > modifications introduced between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 don't appear to agree
> > > with Solaris, using Sun's CC, with the LDAP support code.  Note that
> > > I'm linking against the Solaris-bundled LDAP package (SUNWlldap).
> [ ... ]
> >
> > Is OpenLDAP installed on your system, with the development libraries?
>
> No, it isn't.  According to the 2.2.5 notes, I shouldn't need them.
> This worked from 2.2.5 through 2.2.7, which is why I brought it up.
> Due to our network configuration, we're not too concerned about the
> lack of SSL support.

Well, I am not sure if you need OpenLDAP now or not. I was not aware that
we used to work with the Sun LDAP libraries. I do know if anything was
changed that might affect 2.2.8 compared with 2.2.5.

So I hope I do not send you on a wild gosse chase.

>
> | Changes in 2.2.5
> | ----------------
> |
> | See the cvs log for SAMBA_2_2 for more details
> [ ... ]
> | 4)  Correctly link against Sun LDAP libraries on Solaris 8 (even
> |     through there is no apparent SSL support there)
>
> If OpenLDAP is now a requirement, the documentation should be updated
> accordingly.  Of course, OpenLDAP needs to include a pointer to the
> Berkely DB source code, but that's another project entirely.
>
> I'll try to locate the OpenLDAP dependencies and rebuild Samba
> accordingly.  If that works, I'll post a follow-up message so we can
> update the documentation.
>
> [ ... ]
> > Samba-3.0.0 supports multiple password back-ends. See man smb.conf and
> > look for "passdb backend".
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
>
> 				Dallas
>
>

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org