_ldap problem and current resolution.

[Joe Little]

Early analysis of the problem:

OpenLDAP 2.0.11 does not exhibit this problem. The only other newer 
versions of OpenLDAP that have been packaged by Open-IT are 2.0.14 and 
2.0.15.

This likely means an API change in OpenLDAP that is subtle. I rebuilt my 
RPMs against 2.0.15 and I still see the problem Christian Wiese noted. 
However, regardless of OpenLDAP built against, the python-ldap module 
works as long as the openldap 2.0.11 libraries are present. I will not 
ascertain when this broke post 2.0.11. Likely it means that python-ldap 
itself needs to address this condition, as it _currently_ appears to be 
unrelated to the packaging. I of course may still be wrong on that note.


On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 09:12 AM, Christian Wiese wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thank you for your reply and support.
> In the readme file the module is imported with
>
>>>> import _ldap
>
> but if I try
>
>>>> import ldap
>
> I get the a similar error message.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>>>> import ldap
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/python-ldap/ldap.py", line 2, 
> in ?
>     from _ldap import __version__
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/_ldapmodule.so: undefined 
> symbol: ldap_ufn_setfilter
>>>>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Greetings,
>
> Christian
>
> Am Tuesday 02 October 2001 17:57 schrieb jmlittle at mac.com:
>> I'll look into this immediately. I also hate to bring up a dead horse,
>> but are we supposed to import ldap or _ldap?
>>
>> On Tuesday, October 2, 2001, at 04:09 AM, Christian Wiese wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to write some python apps for accessing our LDAP server 
>>> (OpenLDAP
>>> 2.0.15 on RedHat 7.1), but I've problems importing the _ldap module.
>>> I'm using the latest module from Joe Little, which compiles well with
>>> OpenLDAP 2.0.15
>>>
>>> This is the error message I get from python:
>>>
>>>