* Howard Chu:
Michael Ströder wrote:
On 3/18/19 5:15 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
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.
Hasn't everyone who ships a single library standardized on libldap_r?
Fedora wants to unify libldap and libdap_r as well, and my guidance was to use a soname with libldap_r, too.
When was the last soname bump for libldap_r? Around 2008? Dropping the symbolic link would result in an unncessary (at this point) soname bump.
(Note that the symbolic links are important for glibc at least: the dynamic loader will only load one copy of the library and treat the other names as aliases.)