Howard Chu hyc@symas.com writes:
The benefit is decreasing the number of libraries that need to be maintained, and eliminating the conflict when code linked against one library is dynamically loaded into a process that was already linked with the other.
Indeed, Debian has been trying to use only libldap_r for some time because of the latter issue, and we would love to throw out the way we're handling that in favor of adopting a maintained and supported build configuration.