Re: Compile problems with 2.4.16 and Fedora 10

[David Hawes <dhawes@vt.edu>]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Hi, gang.
> 
> Having a bit of trouble compiling OpenLDAP 2.4.16 under Fedora 10.
> I've built Berkeley DB 4.7 and installed it.  I run configure with:
> 
> LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.7/lib"
> CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.7/include" ./configure
> --enable-modules --enable-backends --enable-overlays=mod --enable-sql=no
> 
> (all one line).  Despite what "./configure --help" says, it still tries
> to include the MySQL NDB stuff by default (and can't find the headers
> even if the mysql-devel RPM is installed, the "NdbApi.hpp" file is in
> /usr/include/mysql/ndb/ndbapi), so I've appended "--enable-ndb=no" as
> well to get past that (don't need MySQL anyway).
> 
> Beyond that, compilation bombs when it hits
> libraries/liblutil/lutil_getpeerid.c:
> 
> getpeereid.c: In function ‘lutil_getpeereid’:
> getpeereid.c:65: error: storage size of ‘peercred’ isn’t known
> 
> "struct ucred" is defined in <asm/socket.h> and the compile doesn't seem
> to be picking that up.  Never had this issue with 2.4.10 or 2.4.11.

Add -D_GNU_SOURCE to your CPPFLAGS:

http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Build?id=5666