Re: libldap vs libldap_r ?

Michael Ströder wrote:

On 3/18/19 5:15 PM, Howard Chu wrote:

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I noticed that OpenSSL 1.1 now has an explicit dependency on Pthreads. Which means that now even our "non-threaded" libldap, when built with OpenSSL, must actually be linked with the threads library. In this age of multicore processors, is it really important to have a single-threaded LDAP library any more? Should we just make libldap_r become the standard library?

Mainstream Linux distributions started to remove libldap anyway. So +1 to abandon it.

I would probably keep "libldap" as the canonical name. We can completely drop the "libldap_r" name or just keep it as a symlink for a while, removing it after a year or so.