On Oct 17, 2018, at 2:09 PM, Geaaru <geaaru@gmail.com> wrote:
i'm ebuild maintainer of Freeradius package in Gentoo and i'm trying to handle correctly changes related with api changes between mariadb and mysql client libraries.
Hopefully the changes aren't too bad...
Current mysql freeradius driver use standard mysql C functions so I think that there aren't needed changes about behaviour about this but I have some questions:
Currently Gentoo permits to install both mysql client libraries for Mariadb and Mysql with a different path for Mariadb (/usr/include/mariadb/mysql.h) instead of standard classic (/usr/include/mysql/mysql.h) and in the same manner with a different naming on client libraries. For this, what could be a better solution for support both library from Freeradius devs side ?
a) add a new driver rlm_sql_mariadb with different include instruction and a different linking library ?
b) customize rlm_sql_mysql driver for support both... fwis it's seems that configure try to check for libmysqlclient library also with option --with-mysql-lib-dir and with Mariadb linking it's for libmariadb.
I'd say (b). I think it should be little more than updating the configure script to check for both MySQL and mariadb. Alan DeKok.