thomas@koeller.dyndns.org wrote:

That is certainly true, however, it misses the point I am trying to make. I want to provide a fix for the problem I encountered.

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From a user's perspective, it is certainly preferable for the whole thing

to 'just work', instead of being provided with instructions about how to configure one's system to avoid problems that arise when using the standard configuration. This places the burden on the user, for no other gain than being able to load a module that cannot be used anyway. With the change I proposed, slapd can work with every standard cyrus-sasl installation right away, no special configuration required, and the problem is solved once and forever.

Unfortunately, your approach *doesn't* fix the problem once and forever. It's testing for a hardcoded library name. The approach is obviously doomed, since library names are highly platform-dependent, and it doesn't address the possibility that some other plugin will show up in the future with the same linkage issues.

I've committed a change to the struct layout, in git master, which might solve the problem. (See ITS#7133 also). Please test and report back, thanks.