https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9307

Issue ID: 9307 Summary: --enable-<option>=mod should require --enable-modules Product: OpenLDAP Version: 2.5 Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: build Assignee: bugs@openldap.org Reporter: ryan@openldap.org Target Milestone: ---

In master/RE25,

./configure --enable-backends=mod

fails with:

checking configure arguments... configure: error: slapd requires a backend

if --enable-modules is not also specified.

In RE24, and for overlays in both versions, the specified modules get switched to static automatically, and a warning is emitted for each:

configure: WARNING: building static accesslog overlay

The behaviour was changed in issue 8224; the idea was to have it fail earlier if neither loadable module support nor any static backend was selected, but the error is not clear enough.

Quanah and I agreed that it would be better to fail with an explicit error message in this case, rather than automatically do something different than requested.