August 2007
Beginner to intermediate
484 pages
11h 59m
English
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Compiling OpenLDAP
In the last section we prepared all of the tools and libraries for building OpenLDAP. In this section we will configure, compile, and test OpenLDAP.
First, we need to get our OpenLDAP server source code moved into a temporary directory for building. Copy the openldap-2.3.x.tgz file into the appropriate directory and then unpack the file:
$ mkdir build/ $ cp openldap-2.3.37.tgz build/ $ cd build $ tar -zxf openldap-2.3.37.tgz
Here, I created a new directory (called build/), copied the OpenLDAP source code archive into the new directory, changed the working directory to build/, and then unpacked the file with the tar utility (the flags -zxf instruct tar to uncompress (z) and extract the contents (x) of the file (f) openldap-2.3.37.tgz ...
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