What does it print before "Killed"? I can't think of how to coerce that, and only that, out of a binary. It is a binary, right? (elfdump and/or file?)

My guess would be that something in your build environment changed. The fact that your binaries are in /usr/local without setting an RPATH is pretty suspect, for one thing -- I'd assume you put your libs in /usr/local/lib.

If it's really not printing anything other than "Killed," you'll need another tool to get observability. ldd comes to mind as a first step.

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Pieter Donche wrote:

I want to update my OpenLDAP to 2.3.39 on my Sun Solaris 10 last year I installed OpenLDAP 2.3.32 without problem. All software requirements as specified in the README file are met

(default prefix /usr/local used) # ./configure # make # make depend # make # make test # make install all succeed

but $ /usr/local/bin/ldapsearch answers: Killed on the other hand, if I use the ldapsearch binary from my openldap-2.3.39 build directory: # ./clients/tools/ldapsearch succeeds and I can perform a search on my LDAP database returning the correct results..

I noticed a big difference in size between: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 457772 Apr 28 09:02 ./clients/tools/ldapsearch and -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1023664 Apr 28 09:27 /usr/local/bin/ldapsearch

All the clients tools have that same size difference between the compiled versions in ./openldap-2.3.39/clients/tools/ldap* and the ones in /usr/local/bin/ldap*

I also noted (from my notes of last year), that the installed versions of the 2.3.32 did not have such size differences...

What changed in make install between 2.3.32 and 2.3.39 and how to fix this?

Pieter Donche wrote:

I want to update my OpenLDAP to 2.3.39 on my Sun Solaris 10 [..] but $ /usr/local/bin/ldapsearch answers: Killed

Note Solaris has sometimes Sun's LDAP tools/libs pre-installed. Are you sure that this particular executable is not the Sun command-line tool? Are you sure there's no library mix regarding libldap.so?

I noticed a big difference in size between: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 457772 Apr 28 09:02 ./clients/tools/ldapsearch and -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1023664 Apr 28 09:27 /usr/local/bin/ldapsearch

Well, sizes always can differ because during 'make install' the tool strip is used (if not specified otherwise). But the size of the installed programs should be *smaller* than the one in the source directory.

What changed in make install between 2.3.32 and 2.3.39 and how to fix this?

Are you sure that you did the *very* same build? I vaguely remember I had to fix various env vars and linker options when building on Solaris.

Ciao, Michael.

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Pieter Donche wrote:

You where quite right! the /usr/local/bin/strip program is to blame...

...

I see from my documentation that my /usr/local/bin/strip comes from installing GNU binutils, version 2.17, which i installed Apr 18 2007, just 2 days after I installed my previous openldap (version 2.3.32)

That begs the question of why you installed GNU binutils. If the problem you installed them to solve was of a limited scope, you should consider only installing them into a non-standard directory so that they don't get used by default.

Philip Guenther