2 For a description of what this distribution contains, see the
3 ANNOUNCEMENT file in this directory. For a description of
4 changes from previous releases, see the CHANGES file in this
7 This is 2.3 release, it includes significant changes from prior
11 Building OpenLDAP Software requires a number of software packages
12 to be preinstalled. Additional information regarding prerequisite
13 software can be found in the OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide.
15 Base system (libraries and tools):
16 Standard C compiler (required)
17 Cyrus SASL 2.1.18+ (recommended)
18 OpenSSL 0.9.7+ (recommended)
19 POSIX REGEX software (required)
22 BDB and HDB backends require Sleepycat Berkeley DB 4.2 or later
25 LTHREAD compatible thread package
26 [POSIX threads, Mach Cthreads, select others]
29 Depends on package. See per package README.
32 MAKING AND INSTALLING THE DISTRIBUTION
33 Please see the INSTALL file for basic instructions. More
34 detailed instructions can be found in the OpenLDAP Admnistrator's
35 Guide (see DOCUMENTATION section).
39 The OpenLDAP Administrator's Guide is available in the
40 guide.html file in the doc/guide/admin directory. The
41 guide and a number of other documents are available at
42 <http://www.openldap.org/doc/guide/admin/guide.html>.
44 The distribution also includes manual pages for most programs
45 and library APIs. See ldap(3) for details.
47 The OpenLDAP website is available and contains the latest LDAP
48 news, releases announcements, pointers to other LDAP resources,
49 etc.. It is located at <http://www.OpenLDAP.org/>.
51 The OpenLDAP Software FAQ is available at
52 <http://www.openldap.org/faq/>.
55 SUPPORT / FEEDBACK / PROBLEM REPORTS / DISCUSSIONS
56 OpenLDAP Software is user supported. If you have problems, please
57 review the OpenLDAP FAQ <http://www.openldap.org/faq/> and
58 archives of the OpenLDAP-software and OpenLDAP-bugs mailing lists
59 <http://www.openldap.org/lists/>. If you cannot find the answer,
60 please enquire on the OpenLDAP-software list.
62 Issues, such as bug reports, should be reported using our our
63 Issue Tracking System <http://www.OpenLDAP.org/its/>. Do not
64 use this system for software enquiries. Please direct these
65 to an appropriate mailing list.
69 See <http://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html> for
70 information regarding how to contribute code or documentation
71 to the OpenLDAP Project for inclusion in OpenLDAP Software.
72 While you are encouraged to coordinate and discuss the development
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81 This work is part of OpenLDAP Software <http://www.openldap.org/>.
83 Copyright 1998-2006 The OpenLDAP Foundation.
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