https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9672

Issue ID: 9672 Summary: Permit static linking with libsasl2 Product: OpenLDAP Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: --- Component: build Assignee: bugs@openldap.org Reporter: dpa-openldap@aegee.org Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 838 --> https://bugs.openldap.org/attachment.cgi?id=838&action=edit pkg-config + libsasl2 = ♥

I want to link slapd statically. First I link openssl and libsasl2 statically. The static libsasl2 bundles all SASL plugins, and linking towards it must be done (in my case) with -lcrypto. The check in configure.ac:

``` AC_CHECK_LIB(sasl2, sasl_client_init, [ol_link_sasl="-lsasl2"], [AC_CHECK_LIB(sasl, sasl_client_init, [ol_link_sasl="-lsasl"])]) ```

fails, since -lcrypto is not passed during linking with the static -lsasl2 . `pkg-config --statit libsasl2 --libs` knows how to link statically with libsasl2 and it knows, whether libsasl2 is installed.

The applied patch does linking/preprocessing of libsasl2 by utilizing pkg-config, when available.