Re: BP build OpenLDAP and lmdb packages

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Saturday, September 26, 2015 8:11 PM +0200 Michael Ströder 
<michael@stroeder.com> wrote:

> HI!
>
> I wonder what's considered best practice for building OpenLDAP and lmdb
> packages e.g. for a Linux distribution.
>
> Fortunately lmdb seems to be leveraged by more and more other software. So
> Linux distributions start to ship lmdb libs and tools as separate
> packages.
>
> 1. Do I have a chance to build OpenLDAP against those packages? Which
> releases have to be aligned?
>
> 2. Or should I link back-mdb statically into slapd when producing OpenLDAP
> packages? This would probably also require to build separate version of
> the mdb tools.

OpenLDAP should only ever be statically linked to the version of liblmdb it 
ships with.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Platform Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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