Re: BF Failure on Bandicoot

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: 21 July 2006 15:20
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] BF Failure on Bandicoot
>
> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> > Bandicoot is currently failing on HEAD with the following
> error shown in
> > a message box during make check:
>
> > The procedure entry point ldap_start_tls_sA could not be
> located in the
> > dynamic link library wldap32.dll.
>
> Just guessing from the function name, but does this go away
> if you don't
> configure --with-ldap?
>
> If so it's presumably a portability issue in this recent patch:
>
> 2006-03-06 12:41  momjian
>
>     * configure, configure.in, src/backend/libpq/auth.c,
>     src/backend/libpq/hba.c, src/backend/libpq/pg_hba.conf.sample,
>     src/include/pg_config.h.in, src/include/libpq/hba.h: This patch
>     adds native LDAP auth, for those platforms that don't have PAM
>     (such as Win32, but also unixen without PAM). On Unix, uses
>     OpenLDAP. On win32, uses the builin WinLDAP library.
>
>     Magnus Hagander
>
> I'd counsel just leaving --with-ldap off until Magnus gets back from
> vacation.  We can always revert the patch later if he can't fix it.
> (There's some fairly ugly stuff going on at lines 69-89 of
> backend/libpq/auth.c, which I bet is the root of the trouble, but
> I'm not going to dig further --- I've wasted more than enough time
> on Windows this week ;-))

Yeah, I spotted that ugliness. I'll turn it off for now, and CC this to
Magnus so he has no excuse for forgetting :-p

Regards, Dave.