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Major security issue: yes  no

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Review needed
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:57:26 GMT
From: lukeh@padl.com
To: openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: SLAPI does not work properly on AIX

Full_Name: Luke Howard
Version: 2.2.15
OS: AIX 5.2
URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
Submission from: (NULL) (203.13.32.92)


Slapd linking against libslapi.a causes it to behave unpredictably on AIX. It
needs to link against the dynamic library (the same one that plugins link
against).

Really, slapd should respect --enable-dynamic if slapd was so built. It just so
happens that this appears to be necessary on AIX (note that I'm building
everything -brtl, which means that the runtime linker is used rather than
compile time linking against shared libraries).

I needed a patch like:

@@ -2351,8 +2354,8 @@
        fi
        AC_CHECK_LIB(ltdl, lt_dlinit, [
                SLAPI_LIBS=-lltdl
-               LIBSLAPI=libslapi.a
-               LIBSLAPITOOLS=../libslapi.a
+               LIBSLAPI=slapi/libslapi.la
+               LIBSLAPITOOLS=../slapi/libslapi.la
                AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBLTDL,1,[define if you have libtool -ltdl])
        ],[AC_MSG_ERROR([could not locate libtool -lltdl])])

The copying of libslapi.a in servers/slapd/Makefile can probably be ditched.

Reply 1

From: Kurt Zeilenga <openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org>
To: lukeh@padl.com
Subject: Re: SLAPI does not work properly on AIX (ITS#3272)
Date: Sat Aug 28 13:23:08 2004

Will this change likely cause problems elsewhere?