Re: libldap vs libldap_r ?

Michael Ströder wrote:
> On 3/18/19 5:15 PM, Howard Chu 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?
> 
> Mainstream Linux distributions started to remove libldap anyway.
> So +1 to abandon it.

I would probably keep "libldap" as the canonical name. We can completely drop the "libldap_r" name
or just keep it as a symlink for a while, removing it after a year or so.

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