Re: libldap vs libldap_r ?

On 3/18/19 11:23 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Monday, March 18, 2019 5:15 PM +0000 Howard Chu <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> I noticed that OpenSSL 1.1 now has an explicit dependency on Pthreads.
>> Which means that now even our "non-threaded" libldap, when built with
>> OpenSSL, must actually be linked with the threads library. In this 
>> age of
>> multicore processors, is it really important to have a single-threaded
>> LDAP library any more? Should we just make libldap_r become the standard
>> library?
>
> Using libldap_r as the standard library has been the default with many 
> downstream linux distributions for years, so I think that's reasonable 
> (and well tested at this point).
>
> --Quanah
>
Similarly with Solaris, when we started shipping OpenLDAP as the 
supported libldap in our distribution, we have only ever shipped the 
libldap_r library.  All of our libldap.*s files are just symlinks. As I 
recall, we started doing this back with the 2.4.30 release.

Doug.