Version consistency checks (v3.0.x and master)

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

On 23 Jan 2014, at 17:10, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at IMPERIAL.AC.UK> wrote:

> On 23/01/14 16:55, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
>> A common issue appears to be version mismatches between FreeRADIUS
>> utilities/the server binary, it's libraries (libfreeradius-radius and
>> libfreeradius-server) and the various modules.
> 
> And the dictionaries. Maybe a special comment:
> 
> # dict version=x.x
> 
> ...and check for this when reading, aborting if it's different? Probably will have to ignore w/ absent values which won't help with people using 2.x dicts against 3.x but, long term, it might.

Yes and yes. Expected version could be passed to my_dict_init which is compares against any version keywords it finds.

>> To help prevent this, all utilities and the server binary will
>> perform runtime version consistency checks against the libraries
>> they're linked to, and the modules they load.
> 
> The answer is probably "no that's crazy" but I don't suppose ABI / symbol versioning helps here?

It should! But jlibtool needs to be updated to do it correctly. Last time I tried it didn't work on OSX, and broke the build on Linux.

It's definitely something that should be revisited.

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS Development Team

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