PHP5 and ldap

[Mel]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 06:36:00 Paul Schmehl wrote:

> I see that my /usr/local/lib/ now contains lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel 16 Feb
> 23
> 14:09 libldap-2.4.so -> libldap-2.4.so.6
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  307762 Feb 23 14:09 libldap-2.4.so.6
>   etc.. so, only references to libldap-2.4.so.6, but no more
> libldap-2.4.so.5
>
> [snipped]
>
> So php5-ldap was already the last version...
>
> What's going wrong and how to solve all that ?
>
> % ln -s /usr/local/lib/libldap-2.4.so /usr/local/lib/libldap-2.4.so.5

Bad bad. Generally, programmers don't bump library versions, breaking 
backwards compatibility, for fun.

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.