Re: More on strdup and glibc2.1

[Hugh Caley <hcaley@loomer.com>]

I would appreciate the patch.  I was able to download the development version with
cvs, but I'm unable to compile it.

Hugh

"Collins M. Ben" wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:57:02AM -0700, Hugh Caley wrote:
> > As you suggested, commenting out the strdup definition in /include/ac/string.h
> > does allow the compile to complete, but seems to lead to another problem:
> > ldif2ldbm doesn't seem to work.  I get no errors, and it seems to run, but when
> > I check the folder I have defined for the data files there is just nothing
> > there.
> >
> > I have used ldbm2ldif succesfully on builds i've done on Solaris and Linux x86,
> > so I think I am using it properly.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.  As background, I am trying to compile and use
> > OpenLDAP 1.2.1 on a Powermac running LinuxPPC-pre-R5, which includes the
> > glibc2.1 libraries.  The compile file hangs on just about every module with an
> > error something like "Invalid Parameters passed to strdup".
>
> I have also experienced similar problems and it seems to relate to some
> db_env (mis)usage in the db2 that comes with glibc 2.1.1 (openldap error,
> not glibc 2.1 or db2)...I think we have this resolved in the devel tree.
> I'll see if I can send you a patch later this evening when I get home.
>
> Ben