2007/2/25, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> I got this suggested patch from Emmanuel Dreyfus, but I'm rather lost in LDAP
> land so I thought perhaps someone else could have a comment on his approach?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:14:48 +0100
> From: Emmanuel Dreyfus
> To: daniel_at_haxx.se
> Subject: LDAP fix
>
> Hi
>
> I use libcurl 7.15.5 on NetBSD
>
> I encountered a problem when using libcurl with LDAP URI. The damn thing
> complained "a required function in the shared library was not found".
>
> Doing some debug, I discovered that the missing function was ber_free.
> The problem is that libcurl looks for it in libldap, while it is in
> liblber.
>
> The patch above fixed the problem. I have no idea if it is fine or not.
> What do you think?
>
> --- lib/ldap.c.orig 2006-12-13 19:23:20.000000000 +0100
> +++ lib/ldap.c 2006-12-13 19:23:20.000000000 +0100
> @@ -197,8 +197,15 @@
> * cannot typecast a data pointer to a function pointer, but that's
> * exactly what we need to do here to avoid compiler warnings on
> picky
> * compilers! */
> *(void**) (&func) = dlsym(libldap, name);
> +#if 1
> + /*
> + * Manu 2006/12/13: if it is not in libldap, look in liblber
> + */
> + if ((func == NULL) && (liblber != NULL))
> + *(void**) (&func) = dlsym(liblber, name);
> +#endif
> }
> #elif defined(WIN32)
> if (libldap) {
> func = (dynafunc)GetProcAddress((HINSTANCE)libldap, name);
>
> --
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
> http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
>
>

Maybe he could test the attached patch.

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