Build ideas

[Bill Schoolfield]

Alright. Thanks all for your input.

Bill

On 7/25/2013 10:07 AM, stefan.paetow at diamond.ac.uk wrote:
>> I could be wrong but I didn't see headers, make files, etc. in the
>> freeradius centos rpm.
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> Correct, because, as John Dennis from RedHat and others have pointed out, earlier versions of FreeRADIUS were not multilib-safe to provide that on CentOS 6 (which is based on RedHat Enterprise Linux, but you know that already).
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> However, John is changing this with FreeRADIUS 3.0 (there's a pretty freeradius-devel package that will be available, which will include the necessary bits).
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> So you're going to have to wait for FR 3.0 and its associated packages for RHEL/CentOS7 or Fedora 20. I'm following John's work on this closely because I will require FR 3.0 on CentOS 6.4 myself.
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>> The one idea I had was to compile the module during our install process
>> using the rpm installed freeradius.
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> Once freeradius-devel is available, you probably can get your install process to install it, do your build, and after successful compilation, uninstall freeradius-devel again.
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> You'll just have to be patient. If you don't want to wait, you don't have a choice and the tarball it is.
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> Stefan
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