Alan,
After reading this message, I thought you might enjoy reading about
my 3 servers running FR. I build it on each of the three machines with
no serious problems, I watched the messages when a build did not work
because of a missing file, found and installed it, and repeat until no more
errors. All three servers are running with MySQL as expected.
I did read the instructions and watched the error messages though. I am a
real novice programmer, so it seemed like a real good idea to listen to the
compiler when it complained about something....
We love FR it is so much better than the early version of livingston radius
we
were using.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan DeKok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: freeradius + MySQL on remote host question
> Robert Causey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Trying to pear down the variables and hone in on the cause is especially
> > dificult when ld doesn't return any %^&&*$%** errors during compile.
>
> Yes. Originally, FreeRADIUS was even worse. There were *huge*
> numbers of complaints from people who put MySQL into (e.g.)
> /opt/testing/march/try2/mysql, and then complained that FreeRADIUS
> wouldn't compile. We fixed the server to be a little more forgiving,
> and those complaints went away.
>
> Many of the dynamic linking issues also went away, because of the
> instructions on how to set up linking specifically for the RADIUS
> server. But there is still a steady stream of people who have
> problems.
>
> Strangely, no one has similar problems with PostgreSQL or Oracle.
> So I think that a large part of the problem really is MySQL. The
> default MySQL install does NOT install static libraries (other DB's
> have them), so even building FreeRADIUS statically won't help.
>
> > I also encountered a number of contradictions in respect to
> > documentation. So being new to freeradius and not being familiar
> > with the internals, it is hard for me to judge where this error is
> > coming from considering I have 3 other applications complied from
> > scratch on the same box with the same mysql setup and they are
> > working fine.
>
> I would dearly love to know WTF they're doing to make it work. So
> far, NO ONE who's having these problems has given any feedback as to
> what's going wrong, or why other programs seem to work.
>
> > Subsequent to my post I did determine that in fact *ld* was not linking
> > in mysqlclient. If I compile with shared libs, freeradius segfaults as I
> > described in my previous post,
>
> Which means that something is very wrong with your system. You've
> got library version conflicts, or something.
>
> > however if I compile with static libs, freeradius complains
> > "rlm_sql: Could not link driver rlm_sql_mysql: file not found" (I
> > know 4.14 of the FAQ).
>
> For that last problem, blame "libtool". It doesn't find a static
> library for MySQL, but it builds rlm_sql_mysql.a anyhow. It *does*
> print out huge warning messages about what's going wrong, but no one
> ever reads them...
>
>
> As for getting it to link dynamically, the instructions in the FAQ
> and in the comments for the "libdir" configuration entry work for me.
> Yet every week, there's someone else who posts to the list,
> complaining that they can't get MySQL to work.
>
> If you think you're frustrated, try dealing with the problem for
> three years. I have absolutely no idea why it's so difficult to get
> MySQL to work. The instructions I wrote in the docs work for me, but
> apparently other people's systems are so magical, that those same
> instructions don't work for them.
>
>
> Mind you, part of the problem is likely that I *don't* install 4-5
> versions of MySQL and OpenSSL on my systems, and I *do* force MySQL to
> build static libraries.
>
> Alan DeKok.
>
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