the problem was in configure.in : - if test x"$ol_with_perl_module" == "xstatic" ; then somebody has done too much C or Perl programming before writing this script... + if test x"$ol_with_perl_module" = "xstatic" ; then The patch is also included into SQL backend changes at ftp://samovaar.dot.ru/pub/openldap-sql/ (see next letter) should I post this to ITS?