Could we make "moduleload <statically linked module>" valid if the module name contains no "." or directory separator? Or introduce a new "module" keyword which works that way?
That would simplify slapd.conf scripting, and documentation examples could simply include moduleload and would be correct without any caveats about whether the modules are statically linked.
Also, moduleload seems to take an undocumented argument list which is passed to the module init routine. See module.c:module_load(). That ought to work whether or not the module is dynamically loaded. I don't think it does now.