60.1 Building SXEmacs with LDAP support

LDAP support must be added to SXEmacs at build time since it requires linking to an external LDAP client library. As of 22.1, SXEmacs has been successfully built and tested with

• OpenLDAP 2.2.6 (http://www.openldap.org/)
• University of Michigan’s LDAP 3.3 (http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/)
• LDAP SDK 1.0 from Netscape Corp. (http://developer.netscape.com/)

Other libraries conforming to RFC 1823 will probably work also but may require some minor tweaking at C level.

The standard SXEmacs configure script auto-detects an installed LDAP library provided the library itself and the corresponding header files can be found in the library and include paths. A successful detection will be signalled in the final output of the configure script.