My eventual goal is that folks using a Ubuntu or Fedora system would have Samba4 'just work' with the packaged OpenLDAP. I can of course lobby them to get their packages updated to build from contrib, but it's easier if it's just in there.=20

Similarly, when I ask folks to configure with 'OpenLDAP HEAD' in the short term, it is of course easier for me if everything is already in place.=20

But this is your project, not mine, and I am happy with whatever we can make work.=20

Right now, along the lines illustrated by Howard, I've committed everything to contrib/slapd-modules/samba4. You may need to tweak the Makefile if you are not building in the source tree (as I usually do; then adjust LDAP_BUILD to your build tree), and if you wish to install modules in some specific place (prefix, exec_prefix, ldap_subdir).

My medium term objective would be to have:

- generally useful modules built-in (e.g. slapo-deref)

- Samba4-specific modules all in one contrib directory, possibly harmonized and consolidated when possible in a single module, to ease configuration and maintenance

The latter could then have a specific configure, if needed, so that packagers could make and install them as easily as possible. In the meanwhile, we should live with this interim solution. Time permitting, I see no issue in maintaining that code, much like we already do with the other modules.

p.