On 11/2/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote these words on 11/02/05 21:21 CST: > > This message is directed toward Randy since those packages have been > > updated by him most recently, but posted here for history's sake. > > > > Any objection to an added note about '--enable-ldap' being needed for > > OpenOffice in the Firefox, Thunderbird, and Mozilla instructions? > > I would really need more background to answer this question. Is is > mandatory for OOo? What is the need for? > > Thunderbird and Moz don't really create an issue, however, the note > would also need to include a blurb that OpenLDAP is required. But > OpenLDAP is an optional dependency, so how can it be required? > Somewhat a contradiction. But nothing that couldn't be overcome. > > Perhaps a note such as (and I'm guessing because I don't have enough > background on your question to answer it properly): > > "If you plan on building OpenOffice, you'll need to ensure that > OpenLDAP is installed and add --enable-ldap to the configure script" > > Firefox does however create an issue. The default > browser/config/mozconfig file in the firefox tree explicitly disables > ldap using --disable-ldap. > > Changing this would be contrary to the Moz developers and something > I'm not sure we want to do. Besides, what does LDAP support in Firefox > do? To the best of my knowledge it is only used by the address book > functionality, which Firefox doesn't provide.
So, I was curious about this contrary to the Moz developers stuff, so I posted a note on netscape.public.mozilla.builds on news.mozilla.org about it. Turns out that --enable-ldap is only not used on Firefox because it's not needed, so there's no danger in building it. Take a look at the thread here (hopefully wrapping doesn't ruin it) http://groups.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.builds/browse_frm/thread/014ff31ba839cd79/ac5f3c749693b1d8#ac5f3c749693b1d8 If that doesn't work, just go to http://groups.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.builds and look for the thread called "Firefox --enable-ldap". Christopher Seawood is a dev on the project I believe. In summary, I believe adding a note that --enable-ldap should be used in Firefox if you're planning on building OOo-2 is safe. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
