Copyright (c) 1998-1999 NeoSoft, Inc.
-For licensing information, see the file neoXldap.c and the COPYRIGHT
-file contains in the directory you found this file.
+For licensing information, see the file neoXldap.c and/or the COPYRIGHT
+file contained in the directory you found this file.
This directory contains an extension to Tcl to interface with an
LDAP server. While this software is being released to the OpenLDAP
is expected that code will converge rather than diverge.
Support is provided for University of Michigan LDAP version 3.3,
-OpenLDAP, and Netscape.
+OpenLDAP, and Netscape. The default configuration supports
+OpenLDAP 1.2.4 and above.
+
+OpenLDAP 2.x is supported, but there is not yet any support for
+using SASL or TLS. There may be interface changes in the LDAP API
+which the author is unaware of (a leak was recently fixed for the
+return values of ldap_first/next_attribute() calls).
It uses GNU autoconf. It builds and installs without requiring
parallel directories, but it does require that Tcl and Extended Tcl
For example, I run:
- ./configure --prefix=/opt/neosoft97 --enable-shared \
- --with-ldap=/usr/isp2000/ldap
+ ./configure --prefix=/opt/neotcl --enable-shared \
+ --with-ldap=/usr/local/ldap
Remember that --prefix must be the same prefix used when building
and installint Tcl.
shell (ldapwish) a library, a pkgIndex.tcl, and a manpage (ldap.n).
If your Tcl installation has been configured with --enable-shared,
-then it is highly recommended that you also use --enable-shared
-here.
+then you must also use --enable-shared here.
Shared libraries and Tcl packages.
-If Tcl is built with --enable-shared, and OpenLDAP (or another version
+If Tcl is built with --enable-shared, AND OpenLDAP (or another version
for that matter) has been build to create -llber and -lldap as shared
-libaries, and you build ldaptcl with --enable-shared, it should be
+libaries, AND you build ldaptcl with --enable-shared, it should be
possible to run a plain Tcl interpreter (eg. tclsh8.0) and do
package require Ldaptcl
which will install the "ldap" command into the interpreter.
-This may require that you set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable
-appropriately, or use -R or -W,-rpath ld command options.
-It also may require that you modify the
-If you configure with --enable-shared, and you have shared libraries
-for -lldap and -llber, then you might be able to
-"package require Ldaptcl", provided that everything is set up
-exactly right, ie. -R ld flags, LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables,
-etc.
+You may need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable appropriately,
+or use -R or -W,-rpath ld command options to resolve the search for ldap
+and lber libraries.
-This package was test built on a Sparc Solaris 2.5 using the SUN Pro C
+This package was test built on a Alpha OSF4.0e with the native C
compiler.
-You may email comments or bug fixes to openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org,
-or to kunkee@OpenLDAP.org.
+Please email comments or bug fixes to openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org,
+or to kunkee@OpenLDAP.org. I would also like to know if you are
+using this interface, so I invite you to drop me an email if you do.