Hi, all,<div><br></div><div>I wanna set &quot;backend perl&quot; in my OpenLDAP configuration. </div><div><br></div><div>I used &quot;--enable-perl&quot; option to enable the perl programming backend. From the config.log, it seems everything is fine. I list all the perl-related entries in the config.log as below. I also attach my config.log in case you want to check it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div>configure:12106: checking for perl</div><div>configure:12124: found /usr/bin/perl</div><div>configure:12137: result: /usr/bin/perl</div>
<div>......</div><div><div>ac_cv_path_PERLBIN=/usr/bin/perl</div></div><div>.....</div><div><div>PERLBIN=&#39;/usr/bin/perl&#39;</div></div><div><div>PERL_CPPFLAGS=&#39; -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -I/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE &#39;</div>
</div><div>......</div><div><div>SLAPD_PERL_LDFLAGS=&#39;-Wl,-E  -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lcrypt&#39;</div></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, when I start the slapd, the server fails to start with the following message printed:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Mar 26 00:37:32 tianyin-desktop slapd[11062]: /home/tianyin/openldap-2.4.30/etc/openldap/slapd.conf: line 103: &lt;backend&gt; failed init (perl)!</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>I used GDB to trace the code and find the bomb point is in backend_info() as follows. slapd failed to find the corresponding backend information, and finally return NULL.</div><div><br></div><div>
<div>BackendInfo* backend_info(const char *type)</div><div>{</div><div>        BackendInfo *bi;</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">	</span>/* search for the backend type */</div>
<div>=&gt;      LDAP_STAILQ_FOREACH(bi,&amp;backendInfo,bi_next) {</div><div>                if( strcasecmp(bi-&gt;bi_type, type) == 0 ) {</div><div>                        return bi;</div><div>                }</div><div>
        }</div><div><br></div><div>        return NULL;</div><div>}</div></div><div><br></div><div>The backtrace is:</div><div><br></div><div><div>#0  backend_info (type=0x91fb88 &quot;perl&quot;) at backend.c:533</div><div>
#1  0x000000000041f627 in config_generic (c=0x9201f0) at bconfig.c:1502</div><div>#2  0x0000000000434674 in config_set_vals (Conf=0x81a460, c=0x9201f0) at config.c:345</div><div>#3  0x0000000000434bd3 in config_add_vals (Conf=0x81a460, c=0x9201f0) at config.c:418</div>
<div>#4  0x0000000000435e27 in read_config_file (fname=0x5a5c40 &quot;/home/tianyin/openldap-2.4.30/etc/openldap/slapd.conf&quot;, depth=0, cf=0x0, cft=0x81a1a0) at config.c:783</div><div>#5  0x00000000004290de in read_config (fname=0x0, dir=0x0) at bconfig.c:4213</div>
<div>#6  0x000000000041ccf7 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffe2f8) at main.c:792</div></div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone use the perl programmable backend before?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance!</div><div>Tianyin</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial;font-size:small">Tianyin XU,<br>
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