[OpenIndiana-discuss] openldap - lib/dev only?

[Roel_D]

Do you know that there is a very nice java-based OpenLDAP program. It supports Solaris. 

http://opends.java.net/

Kind regards, 

The out-side

Op 12 jan. 2013 om 22:41 heeft Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On 01/12/13 01:17 PM, Jim Klimov wrote:
>>  On a side note, I thought of building the particular
>> program with static libraries, as to have less required
>> dependencies on the executing systems. While SMColdap
>> did include the libldap_r.a and such, the Sun and OI
>> distro packages don't. Is this an oversight or a policy
>> to discourage use of generic libs in a non-shared way?
> 
> Sun made a deliberate policy choice long ago to remove static libraries
> from the OS, as it simply makes distributing bug fixes much harder and
> much more expensive, as you have to find and recompile every program that
> linked in a static copy of the library.   (And of course the memory usage
> goes up with every program with their own static copy, and static libraries
> are harder to provide platform-optimized versions of, and static libraries
> make it harder to maintain binary compatibility, and the reasons just go on
> and on.)
> 
> -- 
>    -Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>     Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
> 
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