Re: newbie Q: how to install LDAP?

["Marco Ferrante" <ferrante@unige.it>]

You need to install Berkeley DB library before.
You can get it at http://www.sleepycat.com/.

> Greetings,
> 
> I tried to create a LDAP server on my machine running HP-UX 10.10. I
> downloaded the source from:
> ftp://ftp.OpenLDAP.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-stable.tgz
> <ftp://ftp.OpenLDAP.org/pub/OpenLDAP/openldap-stable.tgz> 
> I followed the instruction (file INSTALL):
> 1.	# tar xfz openldap-stable.tgz
> 		# cd ldap
> 2.	# vi include/ldapconfig.h.edit
> 		(but I don't know what to change, so I left it unchanged)
> 3.	# ./configure
> 
> but that command always stopped with last errors:
> 
> checking for db_185.h... no
> checking for Berkeley DB... no
> checking for GDBM library... checking for gdbm_open... no
> checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... no
> no
> checking for gdbm.h... no
> checking for db... no
> configure: warning: skipping automatic checking for NDBM, must be manually
> enabled.
> configure: warning: could not find suitable LDBM backend
> configure: error: select appropriate LDBM options or disable
> 
> so I couldn't continue to the steps (make install, make, and so on).
> Please somebody tell me step by step on how to make it work.
> 
> Thanks,
> -edi-
> 
> 


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Marco Ferrante (ferrante@unige.it)
CSITA (Centro Servizi Informatici e Telematici d'Ateneo)
Università degli Studi di Genova - Italy
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