Created attachment 167699 [details]
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I ran into the same problem that was encountered in bug #201140.  Kind of disappointing that it was just closed without a fix...

The original submitter started the change by switching to using "OPENLDAP_CONFIGURE_WITH", but didn't know how to complete the conversion of the other options.

My patch starts by completing this work.  After which I delved into why it was a problem.

The issue comes from having installed 'databases/gdbm' with COMPAT (not default) option set.  Where setting ldflags and cppflags so that configure can find the openldap-client port, causes its ndbm check to stumble if gdbm/ndbm is installed.  It doesn't correctly handle where it finds 'ndbm.h', in /usr/local/include from gdbm, and the dbm_open function is in libc.  It has a check to look for dbm_pagfno to see if ndbm.h came from gdbm, but this section doesn't reference -lgdbm_compat.  And, its testing if the library is -lndbm.  But, when its checking if 'dbm_open' is in 'libc', it doesn't check if gdbm/ndbm is in play.

I added a patch to configure.ac to address this.

While the section in 'configure' that does check for '-lgdbm_compat' is based on Debian and the header file being named 'gdbm-ndbm.h'.

Of course, the port builds fine in poudriere, because the build jail won't have gdbm installed.  And, poudriere is how I would build the port if I had decided to deploy it.

As it is, I'm not going to use this, since it doesn't do NFSv4 on FreeBSD (it only does Linux, and after a couple of days I had enough of trying to figure things out...I've decided I didn't need it anyways.  (only doing NFSv4 from FreeBSD to OSX, can stay with NFSv3 for Linux to FreeBSD.   OSX runs its own Dropbox, only FreeBSD needs to mount the share from Linux.)