Olavo wrote:

Is there a way to change the MakeFile and direct it to find the correct libraries ?

No. The issue is that the "configure" script asks the linker on your system to do something... and the linkers behavior is different for "configure" and for "make". Alan DeKok.

Does anybody know about any Linux distro 64 bits that Freeradius will work for sure ? Thanks Olavo

-----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+jsantos5954=gmail.com@lists.freeradiu s.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+jsantos5954=gmail.com@lists.f reeradius.org] On Behalf Of Alan DeKok Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:17 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: Make error

Olavo wrote:

...

Is there a way to change the MakeFile and direct it to find the correct libraries ?

No. The issue is that the "configure" script asks the linker on your system to do something... and the linkers behavior is different for "configure" and for "make".

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On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:38 -0800, Olavo wrote:

Does anybody know about any Linux distro 64 bits that Freeradius will work for sure ?

I am using it on CentOS 5.2 x86_64. The freeradius package that comes with CentOS 5 is old though, I compiled freeradius from source. --Greg

Hi all, I am posting this so it can save some headaches for other people in the future. I've been trying to install FR on a 64 bits OS for a while. First I tried RH 5.2 and I got the following errors /usr/bin/libtool --mode=link gcc -o radmin

...

radmin.lo /usr/lib/libreadline.so /usr/lib64/libtermcap.so /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/freeradius-2.1.1/src/lib/libfreeradius- radius.la util.lo log.lo conffile.lo -lnsl -lresolv -lpthread -lreadline -ltermcap gcc -o .libs/radmin .libs/radmin.o /usr/lib/libreadline.so /usr/lib64/libtermcap.so .libs/util.o .libs/log.o .libs/conffile.o /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/freeradius-2.1.1/src/lib/.libs/libfreer adius-radi us.s o -lnsl -lresolv -lpthread -lreadline -ltermcap /usr/lib/libreadline.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake[4]: *** [radmin] Error 1

Then I move on to CentOs since Greg Woods informed that he is using it without any grief. When I was making it on CentOS I got the exactly same errors above. Then I tried to install on Fedora 10 and it installed smoothly. After playing with Fedora for some time I realized that it is too slow compared to CentOS or RH and I decided to move back to CentOS and find a way to properly install it. The clue to fix the problem was provided by Greg when he said that the FR included with CentOS was too old. When I installed the first time I didn't realized that there is a FR 1.13 version on CentOS so I didn't installed along with the OS. This time I selected 1.13 version and it was installed normally. Then I downloaded version FR 2.1 and it installed smoothly. Now I have radiusd -v radiusd: FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.1, for host x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, built on Nov 28 2008 at 23:06:41 I read somewhere in the site that this is not the recommended way to do it and that 2.1 should be installed in a different location. If someone could comment about any problems that can arise it will be appreciated. Thanks Jair Santos

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On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:38 -0800, Olavo wrote:

...

Does anybody know about any Linux distro 64 bits that Freeradius will work for sure ?

I am using it on CentOS 5.2 x86_64. The freeradius package that comes with CentOS 5 is old though, I compiled freeradius from source.

--Greg

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Thank you. Actually the server is running very well now. Investigating more I realized that version 1.13 is still there but in different directories, so when I set to start on boot it will run version 1.13. Does anybody know if it is only a matter of changing the radiusd script on /etc/init.d to point to version 2.1 daemon and conf files ? Or there is anything elese that I have to do ? Jair Santos

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I assume that you are referring to a build from source as opposed to an rpmbuild from source?

If that's the case you would want to review this: http://wiki.freeradius.org/Build#Building_RedHat_packages

-Ted-

Olavo wrote:

...

Hi all,

I am posting this so it can save some headaches for other people in the future.

I've been trying to install FR on a 64 bits OS for a while. First I tried RH 5.2 and I got the following errors

/usr/bin/libtool --mode=link gcc -o radmin

...

...

radmin.lo /usr/lib/libreadline.so /usr/lib64/libtermcap.so /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/freeradius-2.1.1/src/lib/libfreeradius-

radius.la

...

util.lo log.lo conffile.lo -lnsl -lresolv -lpthread -lreadline -ltermcap gcc -o .libs/radmin .libs/radmin.o

/usr/lib/libreadline.so

...

/usr/lib64/libtermcap.so .libs/util.o .libs/log.o .libs/conffile.o /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/freeradius-2.1.1/src/lib/.libs/libfreer

adius-radi

...

...

us.s o -lnsl -lresolv -lpthread -lreadline -ltermcap /usr/lib/libreadline.so: could not read symbols: File in

wrong format

...

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake[4]: *** [radmin] Error 1

Then I move on to CentOs since Greg Woods informed that he is using it without any grief.

When I was making it on CentOS I got the exactly same errors above. Then I tried to install on Fedora 10 and it installed smoothly. After playing with Fedora for some time I realized that it is too slow compared to CentOS or RH and I decided to move back to CentOS and find a way to properly install it.

The clue to fix the problem was provided by Greg when he said that the FR included with CentOS was too old. When I installed the first time I didn't realized that there is a FR 1.13 version on CentOS so I didn't installed along with the OS.

This time I selected 1.13 version and it was installed normally.

Then I downloaded version FR 2.1 and it installed smoothly. Now I have

radiusd -v radiusd: FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.1, for host x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, built on Nov 28 2008 at 23:06:41

I read somewhere in the site that this is not the recommended way to do it and that 2.1 should be installed in a different location.

If someone could comment about any problems that can arise it will be appreciated.

Thanks

Jair Santos

...

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On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:38 -0800, Olavo wrote:

...

Does anybody know about any Linux distro 64 bits that

Freeradius will

...

work for sure ?

I am using it on CentOS 5.2 x86_64. The freeradius package that comes with CentOS 5 is old though, I compiled freeradius from source.

--Greg

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There has been a fair amount of confusion over how to get FreeRADIUS packages for Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS, how to perform a build if a pre-built package is not available, and how to do some basic maintenance tasks. So I've created a new FreeRADIUS wiki page with Red Hat specific information: http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ If you discover the information is incomplete or in error please let me know and I'll update it. I will reiterate what has been expressed in several recent threads, if you need to build and/or install FreeRADIUS for Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS your pain threshold will be greatly diminished if you use RPM's developed and distributed for Red Hat systems rather than trying to build from the raw source tarball. The reasons and procedures are hopefully sufficiently well explained in the FAQ (if not let me know and I'll fix it). -- John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com>

J Santos wrote:

Thank you Dennis,

It is a very, very useful document.

Checking both distros RHEL and CentOS there are only old packages available (version 1.1.3) and only i386.

I have a rpm already built but it is not properly working.

Based on what you described in the doc I better install the old version and then

yum upgrade freeradius Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.voxitas.com * updates: ftp.telus.net * addons: mirrors.cat.pdx.edu * extras: yum.singlehop.com Setting up Upgrade Process Could not find update match for freeradius No Packages marked for Update

As you can see there is no update available.

So I am in the worst situation and have no choice other that rpmbuild. I am on CentOS 64 and I need Mysql.

The link you have provided in the doc is for fedora only.

Could you please inform from where I can get the spec file for CentOS 64 with MySql ?

Well, the first test of the documentation has apparently failed ;-) I'll update it to make it clearer. You need to build the Fedora version on your CentOS system. You need to take the SRPM (which contains the the spec file) from Fedora (because it's current) and install it on your CentOS system, then perform a rpmbuild. What this is doing is building the current version locally, but observing all the requirements of the local target system. -- John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com>

A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk wrote:

it would help immensely if Fedora, RHEL, CentOS et al actually supplied up to date version of FreeRADIUS - ie at least 2.0.5 (if not 2.1.1 !) rather than the historic 1.1.x (or even 1.0.x!)

The main "download" page on freeradius.org has a link to: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=298 Which has RPMs of recent versions. But who reads the web page? Alan DeKok.

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:18:25AM +0000, A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk wrote:

it would help immensely if Fedora, RHEL, CentOS et al actually supplied up to date version of FreeRADIUS - ie at least 2.0.5 (if not 2.1.1 !) rather than the historic 1.1.x (or even 1.0.x!)

if such a version was available via yum/up2date then almost all queries for how to build source on such distros would disappear

OK, I can't resist reacting again: RHEL (and thus CentOS) are conservative "enterprise" distros and thus do *not* include the newest ("bleeding edge") release of everything as soon as it comes out. They want to stay compatible through the 7 (!) years of support time. This is how it is and this is, in principle, a good idea (for that purpose). Exceptions are made (Firefox 3 is included now) and security bugs are fixed via backports. But if FreeRADIUS would be bumped to a higher release, there will probably be incompatibilities that are, in principe, not acceptable. Fedora has a different policy and *does* include recent releases *now* (in fact, these RPMs were built on November 25): F9 *and* F10 have 2.2.1. If you have the need for a newer release on RHEL/CentOS, the best recipe is to take a Fedora src.rpm and rebuild it on your RHEL/CentOS version. This might require some changes (and some knowledge about RPM and other things). Packaging software for a distro means *integrating* the software in the distro (examples are changes to init scripts, compliance with local packaging standards, etc.) so it's better to start with the Fedora package, being part of the "Red Hat family of distros", than with the generic FreeRADIUS RPM (this applies to almost all software). B.t.w. if there is the need for a more "neutral" version of this story for a FAQ or wiki, I'm happy to write that. It's really important that people understand the philosophy of distros. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:47:08AM +0100, Alan DeKok wrote:

It should be easier for *new* installs to use 2.x. Otherwise, they install the "latest" RHEL version, and then get told to upgrade.

This is unrealistic. How should RH maintain a "sliding" base? And what does "RHEL5" mean if the version you have installed depends on the time of installation? And what about large customers having many servers installed and now install another one (with a different version)?

From what I've seen, the FreeRADIUS community is the only one where the philosophy of conservative distros is tried to be ignored.

Note that I have chosen myself to run a new(er) version of FreeRADIUS on an installed base of RHEL4 servers, by "backporting" a recent Fedora src.rpm to RHEL4. So I *do* see the need in some situations for having a new version. But that's not the fault of Red Hat, it's just the way it works. Having said this, I think the frequency of new RHEL versions (4->5 was 2 years and 5->6 will be longer, as 5 is nearly 2 years old and there is no RHEL6 beta yet) is too long. Software is just getting too old that way if you want to stick to vendor-supplied versions. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204

Jos Vos wrote:

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 09:18:25AM +0000, A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk wrote:

...

it would help immensely if Fedora, RHEL, CentOS et al actually supplied up to date version of FreeRADIUS - ie at least 2.0.5 (if not 2.1.1 !) rather than the historic 1.1.x (or even 1.0.x!)

if such a version was available via yum/up2date then almost all queries for how to build source on such distros would disappear

OK, I can't resist reacting again:

RHEL (and thus CentOS) are conservative "enterprise" distros and thus do *not* include the newest ("bleeding edge") release of everything as soon as it comes out. They want to stay compatible through the 7 (!) years of support time. This is how it is and this is, in principle, a good idea (for that purpose). Exceptions are made (Firefox 3 is included now) and security bugs are fixed via backports. But if FreeRADIUS would be bumped to a higher release, there will probably be incompatibilities that are, in principe, not acceptable.

Fedora has a different policy and *does* include recent releases *now* (in fact, these RPMs were built on November 25): F9 *and* F10 have 2.2.1.

If you have the need for a newer release on RHEL/CentOS, the best recipe is to take a Fedora src.rpm and rebuild it on your RHEL/CentOS version. This might require some changes (and some knowledge about RPM and other things).

Packaging software for a distro means *integrating* the software in the distro (examples are changes to init scripts, compliance with local packaging standards, etc.) so it's better to start with the Fedora package, being part of the "Red Hat family of distros", than with the generic FreeRADIUS RPM (this applies to almost all software).

B.t.w. if there is the need for a more "neutral" version of this story for a FAQ or wiki, I'm happy to write that. It's really important that people understand the philosophy of distros.

Thank you Jos, this is a very good explanation. I tried to allude to the philosophy of the different distributions but was too brief for it to be clear. I'll update the FAQ and if you don't mind I'll borrow some of your words. Please feel free to update the wiki yourself (you'll have to request a wiki account) or send it to me directly. It really is critical folks understand the philosophy of the RHEL/CentOS distributions, it drives many of the release decisions. The current version of FreeRADIUS in RHEL5/CentOS is 1.1.3. It is very unlikely the 1.1.3 version will ever be removed from RHEL5 because of the commitment for version stability in an enterprise distribution. On the other hand we recognize peoples desire for a more current (e.g. 2.1) version of FreeRADIUS in RHEL5. The only way that can happen is for us to provide a new FreeRADIUS package under a new and different name because it cannot replace the existing 1.1.3 FreeRADIUS package. I am working to make this happen, but because this is an exception to the rules of the distribution it requires a fair amount of management buy-in and sheparding through a convoluted set of procedures. I cannot make a promise this will happen but I'm trying to get this approved for the RHEL 5.4 update which is still a fair ways out. In the mean time, RHEL/CentOS user's most productive course of action if they want a 2.1 version of FreeRADIUS is to build the RPM's themselves on their RHEL/CentOS systems. This is one of the reasons I wrote the FAQ, to provide you with instructions on how to build the RPM's yourself. HTH, John -- John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com>

John Dennis wrote:

There has been a fair amount of confusion over how to get FreeRADIUS packages for Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS, how to perform a build if a pre-built package is not available, and how to do some basic maintenance tasks.

So I've created a new FreeRADIUS wiki page with Red Hat specific information:

http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ

Thanks. I've added a file "redhat/README" telling people to please go read that document. Alan DeKok.

Alan DeKok wrote:

Thanks. I've added a file "redhat/README" telling people to please go read that document.

You're welcome. It's a good start and I hope it helps. FWIW we try to make sure the thousands of software packages in our distributions are well supported, it can be a daunting task but thank goodness for the contributions of the community without which none of it would be possible. You should take pride with your own contributions which are enormous. Thank you. -- John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com>

Hi, I 've followed the faq instructions and I have now the following packages available. freeradius-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-perl-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-devel-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-postgresql-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-krb5-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-python-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-ldap-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-unixODBC-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-libs-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-utils-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-mysql-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm When trying to install rpm -ivh freeradius-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libfreeradius-eap-2.1.1.so()(64bit) is needed by freeradius-2.1.1-7.x86_64 libfreeradius-radius-2.1.1.so()(64bit) is needed by freeradius-2.1.1-7.x86_64 Shouldn't these libs be included in the package ? Thanks Jair Santos

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There has been a fair amount of confusion over how to get FreeRADIUS packages for Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS, how to perform a build if a pre-built package is not available, and how to do some basic maintenance tasks.

So I've created a new FreeRADIUS wiki page with Red Hat specific information:

http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ

If you discover the information is incomplete or in error please let me know and I'll update it.

I will reiterate what has been expressed in several recent threads, if you need to build and/or install FreeRADIUS for Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS your pain threshold will be greatly diminished if you use RPM's developed and distributed for Red Hat systems rather than trying to build from the raw source tarball. The reasons and procedures are hopefully sufficiently well explained in the FAQ (if not let me know and I'll fix it).

-- John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com>

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On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:44:08AM -0800, J Santos wrote:

I 've followed the faq instructions and I have now the following packages available.

freeradius-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-perl-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-devel-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-postgresql-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-krb5-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-python-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-ldap-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-unixODBC-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-libs-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-utils-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

freeradius-mysql-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm

When trying to install

rpm -ivh freeradius-2.1.1-7.x86_64.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libfreeradius-eap-2.1.1.so()(64bit) is needed by freeradius-2.1.1-7.x86_64 libfreeradius-radius-2.1.1.so()(64bit) is needed by freeradius-2.1.1-7.x86_64

Shouldn't these libs be included in the package ?

Install all packages you need in one step. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204