On 11/7/18 5:19 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
The OpenLDAP project has long recommended against using distribution provided builds for a variety of reasons. You've just excellent summarized another reason why they should be avoided -- You have no control over whether or not they will change how they build the software and thus utterly destroy a working deployment.
Well, the change in the build config was meant as first step to prepare getting rid of Berkeley-DB as hard installation dependency. Because it is probably a bad idea to statically link backends deemed deprecated by the OpenLDAP developers for some years already. ;-]
Ciao, Michael.