Debian build the freeradius package with unixodbc support

13 Nov 2012

      Hi, 

Here is what I am trying to achieve, we want to install freeradius using a
Microsoft SQL backend. I read on the internet that we need to achieve this
goal using the unixodbc driver.

I am able to set up the unixodbc driver from apt-get and if I configure
Freetds to use it. After the installation and configs I can run the test
command:

    isql -v DVSQLServer USERNAME PASSWORD
    +---------------------------------------+
    | Connected!                           
    |                                      
    | sql-statement                        
    | help [tablename]                     
    | quit                                 
    |                                       
    +---------------------------------------+

This is actually working. But I found out downloading the freeradius tarbal
that it can't use the rlm_sql_unixodbc driver, because in the debian/rules
file they compile it using the flag:

    --without-rlm_sql_unixodbc

I thought it would be easy to remove the flag from debian/rules and just
build my own package using the command line:

    fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc

But it is failing with error:

    checking for SQLConnect in -lodbc... no
    checking for sql.h... yes
    configure: error: set --without-rlm_sql_unixodbc to disable it
explicitly.
    configure: error: ./configure failed for ./drivers/rlm_sql_unixodbc
    configure: error: ./configure failed for src/modules/rlm_sql
    make: *** [config.status] Error 1
    dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

Do you have any idea of what I am missing to compile it successfully?

I can also tell you that I ran these apt-get command to make sure I was
having all the dependencies.

    apt-get build-dep -y unixodbc freetds-bin freetds-common freetds-dev
tdsodbc freeradius
    apt-get install -y unixodbc freetds-bin freetds-common freetds-dev
tdsodbc libssl-dev dpkg-dev

Regards
Dominick

Dominick Rivard,
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