On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:17:26PM +0000, abartlet@samba.org wrote:

It would be very useful if OpenLDAP would provide a default value for modulepath.

This would ensure that on systems with multiple openldap installs (such as test rigs) that we do not need to specify the *correct* modulepath, when starting the config with different slapd binaries.

Similarly, it would avoid the need to guess which modulepath is correct for a given system, such as when we find slapd in the path (as Samba4's test mode does), but needs to automatically enable modules.

Another scenario is with some tool providing a config file for slapd. It wouldn't have to guess the host arch whether it's i386 or x86_64 and set the correct module_path (/usr/lib/openldap vs /usr/lib64/openldap).