quanah@zimbra.com writes:

Building unix software with debugging symbols is basic system administrator knowledge. There is nothing "openldap" specific about doing so.

Yes, there is, since OpenLDAP uses autoconf, libtool & co with defaults that get in the way of debugging:

Openldap 'make install' strips debugging symbols, so you must either run slapd from the source tree or install with 'make install STRIP=:' or something, I don't remember at the moment.

Also it helps debugging to remove the optimize option which OpenLDAP uses by default if it can compiler-specific, but with gcc that's ./configure CFLAGS="-g"

I would suggest updating http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/59.html with any information you feel specifically is lacking.

I'll make a note to update that one a bit.