Hi all, In the interest of trying new shiny things, I decided to try compiling the directory server on my Ubuntu box today-- after some pain, it seems to be running nicely. It's obviously a long way from being properly packagable (and I probably won't have time to do anything but play with LDAP server's capabilities for a while), but I thought I'd let people know about my experiences in case someone wants to pick up where I left off.. The instructions on the directory server website (for RedHat/Fedora) work, with the following caveats: 1. cyrus-sasl requires some care. You need to make sure it doesn't depend on any database (or link it against the version of berkeley db you're going to use with the ldapserver itself), else you're going to be missing symbols when you try to link the ldapserver binary. Unfortunately, cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 doesn't seem to want to build at all in this configuration, so you'll have to upgrade to cyrus-sasl-2.1.21 (which also doesn't work in this configuration, but can be tweaked). My solution: tar zxvf cyrus-sasl-2.1.21.tar.gz cd cyrus-sasl-2.1.21 ./configure --with-dblib=no --enable-static --without-des --without-openssl make (watch it fail) cd lib && make cd .. make cd .. ln -s cyrus-sasl-2.1.21 cyrus-sasl-2.1.20 That failure has been filed on cyrus-sasl's bugzilla (#2674) 2. You need to make a symbolic link from /usr/bin/gmake to /usr/bin/make (Debian doesn't do this by default). See bug 159371 in redhat's bugzilla. 3. When building ldapserver, you'll get a lot of warning messages about a missing '/etc/redhat-release' file-- these messages are (IIRC) quite harmless. Hopefully the autoconfization of the server will happen soon and we can handle all the distro-specific stuff from a central configuration script (instead of make macros). :-) -- William Lachance wrlach@xxxxxxxxx
