On 8/12/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 08/11/05 23:41 CST:
> > The book currently mentions that berkeley db is required for openldap.
> > This is incorrect. It can also use gdbm instead of bdb. IMO, the
> > dependency list should be changed to:
> >   Required: bdb (recommended) or gdbm.
> 
> On further review, the LDAP documentation disagrees with your statement.
> See section 4.2.4 at:
> http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin23/install.html#Prerequisite%20software
> 
> LDAP can *also* use GDBM, however, my reading of the documentation still
> says that BDB is required.
> 

The document states: "OpenLDAP's slapd primary database backend, BDB,
requires Sleepycat Software Berkeley DB. If not available at configure
time, you will not be able build slapd with this primary database
backend." Additionally, it states: "This package is required *if* you
wish to use the BDB database backend."

I read it as without BDB, one cannot have bdb as the primary database
backend; so one would have to choose another database backend such as
gdbm. I just finished a build that used gdbm instead of db (though
both were present on the system).

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