Hello Richard, Thanks for your reply, and thanks for the tip about unzipping nsbase.zip. I hadn't seen that anywhere. It looks like that's working, however I'm now having problems compiling perldap-1.4.1.
My apologies if my message seemed a bit snarky, as you are correct that this is better than nothing. Good luck with the binaries. "Richard Megginson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > You don't have to do a full blown Directory Server installation just to > get those few shared libraries. They are in the zip files. Can you > simply download the package and untar it? Or can you not spare 100MB > disk space? > > If you download the package, the ldap sdk files are in the base > directory in a zip file called nsbase.zip. The ldap shared libraries > you need are in the lib directory (including nss and nspr libraries if > you need to do SSL), and the command line programs are in shared/bin. > So you can simply use tar, gunzip, and unzip to get the files you need. > > While this is not an ideal solution, it works. If you can afford to > spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to compile the sdk on your > own, that is the best way, since once you figure out how to do it, you > are set. > > We are trying to figure out a way to make ldap sdk binaries available > for download from mozilla or netscape. In the meantime, I apologize for > the kludge, but it's better than nothing. > > FinWait wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've read through quite a few messages and see that the standard answer for > > users trying to compile the LDAP C SDK with Linux 2.4, is to download and > > install AOL's Directory Server. While this may be a kludge to get things to > > work, I don't think that it is an acceptable fix for most people. I have no > > interest in installing an unecessary product for the sake of compiling > > another. > > > > Has anyone out there managed to get the SDK to compile? Or does anyone have > > binaries for RH7.3? I'm actually trying to integrate LDAP authentication > > with Bugzilla and need this to work. I cannot install the directory server > > on my bugzilla server, so any help suggestions that do not include that > > option would be greatly appreciated. > > > > >
