[csw-users] PHP - Solaris LDAP libraries vs. OpenLDAP libraries

[Jeremy O'Leary]

Luke Youngblood wrote:

> I’m having a little bit of difficulty using the Blastwave version of 
> modphp. You see, it’s compiled and linked against the OpenLDAP 
> libraries. We are using Sun’s native LDAP client on our servers to 
> provide authentication, and if I try to start Apache on a server that 
> is using the Sun Native LDAP client, it core dumps. I spent weeks 
> troubleshooting this case with Sun support and they finally said 
> “you’re using the OpenLDAP libraries, stop linking against them if you 
> want it to work.” So, my options are basically this:
>
> 1. I can compile PHP on my own, linking against the Sun LDAP 
> libraries, and not use CSWmod_php. This works fine.
>
> 2. I can humbly request that the package maintainer link against the 
> Sun LDAP libraries instead of OpenLDAP.
>
> I’d like to make that humble request. OpenLDAP used to be the only 
> source of decent LDAP libraries on Solaris, but now that Sun has 
> gotten their act together with Solaris 9 and the secure native LDAP 
> client (which is also backported to Solaris 8 in patch 108993), why 
> don’t we link against their libraries?
>
> It would also remove the need to install OpenLDAP as a dependency 
> during the pkg-get phase.
>

We are going to be implmenting OpenLDAP were I work so please don't make 
everything dependant on Sun LDAP libraries.

thanks,

Jeremy