samba - Apr 2011 - Samba 3.5.8 on AIX 5.3 with IBM LDAP libraries

Hello,

We're currently using Samba 3.5.8 with the IBM AIX supplied LDAP libraries 
on AIX 5.3 (using gcc).  We were not able to compile this originally 
without making the following modifications:

1. create a symlink libldap.a to libibmldapn.a in /usr/ldap/lib
2. change ber_init() to ber_init2() in the following 3 c files
 
                passdb/pdb_nds.c   line 234
                lib/smbldap.c          line 1533
                libads/ldap.c           line 1021

3. define LDAP_OPT_DESC in lib/smbldap.c (as 1)


This was in addition to normal things like setting flags for the compiler 
and using gmake (via having /usr/linux/bin first in PATH, which is common 
for building on AIX ).  Afterwards, ./configure --with-ldap=/usr/ldap and 
make install worked.  Active Directory support didn't work ( configure 
says missing ldap_initialize() )  but since we don't use it, we didn't 
investigate further.

We were wondering if anyone else does this?  It seems that everyone ends 
up installing openldap and just using that.  Things have been working well 
so far with LDAP support compiled as mentioned above.  Ideally, we would 
like to able to use the supplied AIX LDAP libraries without having to 
modify the source code.  Is there a better method to accomplish this?  If 
this is the correct method, would it be possible to have our changes 
merged to the main source tree so future installs require only ./configure 
... , make , make install ?  We can not allow direct access to our machine 
for testing, but we do have a test machine available to test any source 
changes, should that be required.

Thanks,
Jared.

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Hi
i am trying to use ADS in samba 3.3.12  on Aix...and facing the same issue
(ldap_initialize missing).
i have ibmldap installed...
when i run  ./configure  --with-ads  --with-pam  --with-winbind
--with-krb5=/usr/local/lib
it stops giving this error...


checking for LDAP support... auto
checking ldap.h usability... yes
checking ldap.h presence... yes
checking for ldap.h... yes
checking lber.h usability... yes
checking lber.h presence... yes
checking for lber.h... yes
checking for ber_tag_t... yes
checking for ber_scanf in -llber... no
checking for ber_sockbuf_add_io... no
checking for LDAP_OPT_SOCKBUF... no
checking for LBER_OPT_LOG_PRINT_FN... no
checking for ldap_init in -lldap... yes
checking for ldap_set_rebind_proc... yes
checking whether ldap_set_rebind_proc takes 3 arguments... 2
checking for ldap_initialize... no
checking whether LDAP support is used... yes
checking for Active Directory and krb5 support... yes
checking for ldap_initialize... (cached) no
configure: error: Active Directory support requires ldap_initialize