Building openldap-2.2.19

[Craig White <craigwhite azapple com>]

I am thinking that I want to build openldap-2.2.19 on a new system. I am
gathering that I need to leave openldap/openssl etc where they are at
from RHEL distribution and simply build anew in /usr/local.

Following instructions from Quanah Gibson-Mount
<http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/openldap/>


my first step would be to build openssl

his suggested ./config options are:

env CC=gcc LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib" \ 
PERL=/usr/local/bin/perl LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib \ 
./Configure --prefix=/usr/local 
--openssldir=/usr/local/openssl \ 
shared solaris-sparcv9-gcc

Now I know that perl is in /usr/bin/
and shared solaris-sparcv9-gcc isn't for me

So my questions (I have only built easier items from source):

1 - shared linux ?
2 - LD_RUN_PATH=/usr/local/lib ?
3 - Does this make sense to do all this?
4 - Is there a reason to go through the extra hassle of making rpms?
5 - Anything else I need to know?

Craig