Mastering OpenLDAP

Building Everything

In the build mentioned in the previous section we compiled only the basics. This gets us what we need to run just the basics. But there are lots of OpenLDAP backends and overlays that can be useful (many of which are covered in this book). In cases where we want to build everything, typically it is best to compile OpenLDAP with module support, and compile all of the overlays and backends as modules. That way we can have all of the extras available, but only the ones needed (and configured in slapd.conf) get loaded at runtime.

Note

Many of the additional backends and overlays have their own dependencies. For example, the Perl backend requires that the Perl libraries be installed. Most of the necessary dependencies are installed ...