[Samba] Samba 3.5.8 on AIX 5.3 with IBM LDAP libraries

[Jared Forrester]

Hello,

We're currently using Samba 3.5.8 with the IBM AIX supplied LDAP libraries 
on AIX 5.3 (using gcc).  We were not able to compile this originally 
without making the following modifications:

1. create a symlink libldap.a to libibmldapn.a in /usr/ldap/lib
2. change ber_init() to ber_init2() in the following 3 c files
 
                passdb/pdb_nds.c   line 234
                lib/smbldap.c          line 1533
                libads/ldap.c           line 1021

3. define LDAP_OPT_DESC in lib/smbldap.c (as 1)


This was in addition to normal things like setting flags for the compiler 
and using gmake (via having /usr/linux/bin first in PATH, which is common 
for building on AIX ).  Afterwards, ./configure --with-ldap=/usr/ldap and 
make install worked.  Active Directory support didn't work ( configure 
says missing ldap_initialize() )  but since we don't use it, we didn't 
investigate further.

We were wondering if anyone else does this?  It seems that everyone ends 
up installing openldap and just using that.  Things have been working well 
so far with LDAP support compiled as mentioned above.  Ideally, we would 
like to able to use the supplied AIX LDAP libraries without having to 
modify the source code.  Is there a better method to accomplish this?  If 
this is the correct method, would it be possible to have our changes 
merged to the main source tree so future installs require only ./configure 
... , make , make install ?  We can not allow direct access to our machine 
for testing, but we do have a test machine available to test any source 
changes, should that be required.

Thanks,
Jared.

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