Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> i'm not convinced about the support for LDAP protocol, it looks like
> curl tries to load libldap.so with something like dlopen.
>
> problem is that tipically this file is provided by a library developement
> package (ie. libldap2-dev on debian) and curl package ends to depend
> on this other development package for its normal use.
>
> why this support is not provided using share library as usual?

Probably so that you can install curl without installing ldap libraries
if you're not using the LDAP protocol with it! :)

It is annoying to install a package that can use lots of optional
libraries, only to find that all of those libraries have to be
installed due to packaging dependencies, even when you're not using
their functionality at all.

-- Jamie
Received on 2005-01-31