At 12:05 PM 1/12/2006, Howard Chu wrote:
>That sounds OK. Currently back-monitor exposes the slapd version string;

a trimmed version.  I find slapd -V more helpful as it says
who build slapd and from where.

>we should add whatever version strings are available for any other libraries 
>we know about (OpenSSL and SASL come to mind as frontend libraries).

It would be nice to publish both the header and library version
information, where available.

>The database backends (bdb/hdb, ldbm) should register a version string for 
>their underlying database library, and modules in general should register a 
>module version string.
>
>I'm reluctant to put exhaustive build environment info into back-monitor. Lots 
>of that information can be easily determined after the fact with common tools 
>like nm, strings, ldd, etc., so it doesn't seem worth the effort to capture 
>that info explicitly.

I concur.

Kurt

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