LDAP on Slackware Linux

[David E. Filip]

Has anyone out there had success in getting the UM standalone LDAP server
(slapd) build on a Slackware-like system? (definition: Slackware-like:
adj. used to describe a system that started as Slackware many years ago
and has since had various components upgraded at differenet times from
the 'Net, mostly from sunsite).

The Linux LDAP 'home page' is geared towards Debian, and mentions running
automake and autoconf, which I don't have (and can only assume are part of
Debian). Running make manually dies with *** [all] Error 127, which I
think I had seen somewhere else as a symptom of something broken, but can't
remember where (and I don't get any compile errors before that point). My
make is 3.7.2.1 and my gcc is 2.7.2.1 on a 2.0.10 kernel, if that provides
any hints.

Regards,

Dave.

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[Ian]

In article <6mr134$2ih$1...@maceo.dti.net>,

dfi...@colornet.com (David E. Filip) writes:
> Has anyone out there had success in getting the UM standalone LDAP server
> (slapd) build on a Slackware-like system?

I had no problems, I installed it on a new slackware 3.5 system, your
slowly-evloved slackware system might be causing you problems, but my
main desktop machine is similar, but I've never had any problems
installing anything. My LDAP readme states at the top;

This is the UM-LDAP version 3.3 distribution.

> The Linux LDAP 'home page' is geared towards Debian, and mentions
> running automake and autoconf, which I don't have (and can only
> assume are part of Debian).

I never really saw anything about this, I got all my LDAP info by
following links from;

http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/cyrus

I just used the configuration make includes and ran make, it worked fine.

> Running make manually dies with ***
> [all] Error 127, which I think I had seen somewhere else as a
> symptom of something broken, but can't remember where (and I don't
> get any compile errors before that point). My make is 3.7.2.1 and
> my gcc is 2.7.2.1 on a 2.0.10 kernel, if that provides any hints.

My make's GNU Make version 3.76.1, I'm using egcs-2.90.29 980515
(egcs-1.0.3 release) and I'm running on kernel 2.0.34. You could try
upgrading, or perhaps you could run your make as "strace -fo <output
file> make", the output file would contain a list of all the operating
system calls, near the end there may be a little clarification on what
caused the error. Alternatively, search Dejanews for the error message
using their powersearch form with "*linux*" as the newsgroup. BTW I
recently found out that dejanews runs on linux!

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[Alain...@icma.unil.ch]

David E. Filip <dfi...@colornet.com> wrote:
> Has anyone out there had success in getting the UM standalone LDAP server

> (slapd) build on a Slackware-like system? (definition: Slackware-like:
> adj. used to describe a system that started as Slackware many years ago
> and has since had various components upgraded at differenet times from
> the 'Net, mostly from sunsite).

Nice definition; sounds like my setup too...

> The Linux LDAP 'home page' is geared towards Debian, and mentions running
> automake and autoconf, which I don't have (and can only assume are part of

If your system is Slackware-like, just get those from your nearest GNU
mirror (automake-1.3.tar.gz and autoconf-2.12.tar.gz) and recompile!

> Debian). Running make manually dies with *** [all] Error 127, which I

> think I had seen somewhere else as a symptom of something broken, but can't
> remember where (and I don't get any compile errors before that point). My
> make is 3.7.2.1 and my gcc is 2.7.2.1 on a 2.0.10 kernel, if that provides
> any hints.

Can't help here; are you sure the Makefile is OK? maybe you should have run
configure first (sorry for suggesting that :-) ?

Hope this helps a bit!

Alain Borel
<Alain...@icma.unil.ch>