Shared object problem under OpenBSD - Re: [Dovecot] Pid file?

Timo wrote:

Well, I thought you would have looked at 0.99.10.4 release announcement mail:

Ah, oops. I figured I wasn't going to bother with any upgrades until the bug was fixed, and forgot you might only mention the bug fix in the release notes. Sorry!

I've now built the new version, and will try deploying this evening.

Incidentally, building a new version of dovecot has reminded me of a problem I encountered building under OpenBSD (version 3.2). When using dlsym() to find C symbols in shared objects, the symbol name must be prefixed with an underscore. For the time being, I've fixed the issue with the following shim in src/auth/auth-module.c : 97a98

  char buf[64];

101c102,106 < ret = dlsym(module->handle, name);

  buf[0]='_';
  strncpy(buf+1,name,62);
  buf[63]='\0';

  ret = dlsym(module->handle, buf);

Without that fix, using modules for auth_userdb or auth_passdb won't work.

I'm sure there must be some elegant way to deal with this portability issue, but for the moment it eludes me. (-8

Regards,

--Clive.