I had install Debian lenny. later, mysql, later apache and later, download freeradius freeradius-server-2.1.7.tar.gz, untar and ./configure, make and make install. the errors like "checking for gcc... no" was solved.
now, i tried to run famous "radiusd -x" but i have the follow error message:
debian:~/freeradius-server-2.1.7# radiusd -X radiusd: error while loading shared libraries: libfreeradius-radius-2.1.7.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory debian:~/freeradius-server-2.1.7# radiusd -x radiusd: error while loading shared libraries: libfreeradius-radius-2.1.7.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory debian:~/freeradius-server-2.1.7# radtest test test localhost 0 testing123 /usr/local/bin/radclient: error while loading shared libraries: libfreeradius-radius-2.1.7.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory debian:~/freeradius-server-2.1.7#
Linker is looking for libraries in the wrong place. Add correct ldpath. You had a message about that when building the server. Ivan Kalik