Cannot compile against a static build of OpenLDAP

[cmeister2]

I did this

./configure --prefix=/tmp/curl_install --disable-shared --enable-debug --enable-maintainer-mode --disable-symbol-hiding --enable-ipv6 --with-random=/dev/null --with-ssl=/tmp/curl_install --with-ldap-lib=/tmp/curl_install/lib/libldap.a

This gives the following output:

checking for lber.h... no
checking for ldap.h... no
checking for ldapssl.h... no
checking for ldap_ssl.h... no
checking for ldap_init in -l"/tmp/curl_install/lib/libldap.a"... no
configure: WARNING: "/tmp/curl_install/lib/libldap.a" is not an LDAP library: LDAP disabled

The header file failures appear to be due to not having those files in the standard system path (as expected).

The ldap_init failure looks to be simpler:

configure:21593: checking for ldap_init in -l"/tmp/curl_install/lib/libldap.a"
configure:21615: gcc -o conftest -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -g -O0 -pedantic -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wunused -Wshadow -Winline -Wnested-externs -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-long-long -Wfloat-equal -Wno-multichar -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wno-format-nonliteral -Wendif-labels -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wstrict-aliasing=3 -Wcast-align -Wtype-limits -Wold-style-declaration -Wmissing-parameter-type -Wempty-body -Wclobbered -Wignored-qualifiers -Wconversion -Wno-sign-conversion -Wvla -Wdouble-promotion -Wno-system-headers -DDEBUGBUILD -DCURLDEBUG    conftest.c -l/tmp/curl_install/lib/libldap.a  -lz  >&5
conftest.c:37:1: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype [-Wstrict-prototypes]
 char ldap_init ();
 ^
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/tmp/curl_install/lib/libldap.a

Specifying the path of the ldap library isn't really the correct way of specifying a "-l" library; but specifying "ldap" as the name will also fail because the lib path isn't specified.

This looks to be because there's no configure mechanism for specifying the root directory of an LDAP install (compare to say libbrotli or openssl or rtmp, which have a --with-{brotli,ssl,rtmp} mechanism).

I expected the following

For the build to work!

curl/libcurl version

Latest git master (b2afc36)

operating system

Ubuntu Linux

[cmeister2]

By the way, I don't mind implementing the fix if I get a reasonable design 😄

[bagder]

The configure script really isn't done to fix static builds for a lot of situations, mostly since it is a futile game to make sure it tracks down and link with all the possible 3rd party dependencies for all libs it can link with. We focus on linking shared in the configure script.

That said, you can usually fix static links problem by crafting LDFLAGS, LlBS and CPPFLAGS etc on the configure command line to instruct configure to link with (the correct) extra things and fine the correct include paths etc.

[JCMais]

@cmeister2 have you fixed this somehow?

[cmeister2]

Think I gave up in the end. Sorry.

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