[Pkg-openldap-devel] www.Globus.org compilation worries: missing slap.h et al

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Steffen,

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 06:19:17PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> I am packing the Globus packages for Debian, based on the effort of the 
> NorduGrid project (www.nordugrid.org) and ... conquered all problems except 
> for LDAP. The reoccurring issue is with the slap.h include file. I compared 
> the file you are distributing in the openldap source package in servers/slapd 
> with the slap.h from the RPMs of Globus and must admit that it is that file. 
> Let me guess:  You feel it to be on the unappropriate side of things to 
> forward that slap.h file in a -dev package since that file is not meant to 
> serve as an external interface? The same holds for basically all your files 
> in the server/slapd/include directory

> Is there a -dev package featuring these files that I have missed? Otherwise .. 
> is there something you are suggesting me to do?

For a time there was a slapd-dev package that shipped those headers that
would be used for building out-of-tree slapd backends, but this was dropped
for reasons I don't recall.  What is it that Globus uses these headers for?

Cheers,
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