Apache and APR-Util Using OpenLDAP [LSARC/2009/123 FastTrack timeout 02/27/2009]

[Jyri Virkki]

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> From: Jeff Trawick <Jeffrey.Trawick at Sun.COM>
> To: webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [webstack-discuss] Apache and APR-Util Using	OpenLDAP
> 	[LSARC/2009/123 FastTrack	timeout 02/27/2009]
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:25:50 -0500
> 
> Danek Duvall wrote:
> >Would the binding problems go away if you linked against openldap with
> >direct binding?  I also see that the library is linked against libsendfile
> >and libuuid, which are also unused -- perhaps -z ignore on the link would
> >help?
> >  
> 
> Although I'm familiar with using linker tricks on other platforms to 
> deal with multiple ldaps, I'm just finding out exactly what you mean by 
> the term "direct binding" from the Linker and Libraries Guide. Just so I 
> don't go off in the wrong direction:
> 
> By "binding problem", you mean two symbols used by different objects in 
> the process, which have the same name, right?
> 
> And anything in an unused library by definition (of "unused") doesn't 
> participate in a binding problem, right?
> 
> So you're talking about the potential concern that some other user-added 
> code uses Solaris libldap, while the OpenSolaris-delivered code running 
> inside Apache uses OpenLDAP, right?
> 
> APR-Util's apr_ldap.so and httpd could link with OpenLDAP using the 
> direct binding option so that the use of OpenLDAP would be limited to 
> those objects, right?