[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#499560: Bug#499560: Bug#499560: Bug#499560: OpenLDAP 2.4.11 declared stable by upstream

[Philipp]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ah, here we go:
>
>     http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421946#70
>
> It wasn't a safety issue, it was a speed issue.  Sorry about the
> confusion.
In that mail Howard suggests  to build with 
"--with-mutex=POSIX/pthread". Checking db4.6's build logs...

> $ GET 
> 'http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=db4.6;ver=4.6.21-11;arch=i386;stamp=1221301567' 
> | grep -i mutex
> checking if --disable-mutexsupport option specified... no
> checking if --enable-posixmutexes option specified... no
> checking if --enable-uimutexes option specified... no
> checking if --with-mutex=MUTEX option specified... no
> checking for mutexes... POSIX/pthreads/library/x86/gcc-assembly
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. 
> -I/usr/include/tcl8.5 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall -g -O2  
> ../dist/../mutex/mut_tas.c
>  gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -I/usr/include/tcl8.5 -D_GNU_SOURCE 
> -D_REENTRANT -Wall -g -O2 ../dist/../mutex/mut_tas.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o 
> .libs/mut_tas.o
>  gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. -I/usr/include/tcl8.5 -D_GNU_SOURCE 
> -D_REENTRANT -Wall -g -O2 ../dist/../mutex/mut_tas.c -o mut_tas.o 
> >/dev/null 2>&1
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -I. -I../dist/.. 
> -I/usr/include/tcl8.5 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall -g -O2  
> ../dist/../mutex/mut_pthread.c
> ...
shows that the debian package is indeed not built with that option, at 
least on i386.
Not sure how severe that speed issue is, but probably not something  to 
be changed hastily.

So here's to hoping that it really is "the eleventh hour" as Steve calls 
it. :-)


Although I do feel a little happyness everytime i can "apt-get purge 
libdb...".

Bye,
  Philipp