Hairpulling IT Moments
So an installation of OpenLDAP depends on Cyrus-SASL already being installed. So far so good. But Cyrus-SASL is looking to have an LDAP feature installed so it will work. What the ???
Seems like the solution is to build Cyrus-SASL without the LDAP dependency, then install OpenLDAP and then go back and modify the Cyrus installation, adding in the LDAP feature. And people wonder why server builds take so bloody long.
August 7th, 2008 in
Computers | tags: Cursed technology
That’s why we include all of the various parts in our binary packages. It’s a nasty gotcha otherwise.
That’s why I like being a consultant (in the contract programmer sense) — it usually isn’t me who winds up having to do these things.