SLES 10 + Oracle

[Peter Nixon]

On Wed 21 Nov 2007, Stefan Kohler wrote:
> Am Mi, 21.11.2007, 10:16, schrieb Stefan Kohler:
> > Am Mi, 21.11.2007, 00:37, schrieb Peter Nixon:
> >> On Tue 20 Nov 2007, Stefan Kohler wrote:
> >>> Hi users,
> >>>
> >>> I have a problem compiling a RPM-package for SLES10 and I followed
> >>> the instructions on the WIKI-sites. All dependecies are installed and
> >>> I also installed the Oracle rpms (oracle-instantclient-basic and
> >>> oracle-instantclient-devel), so all headers and stuff should be
> >>> installed.
> >>>
> >>> Now I am trying to build the RPM (as mentioned above all dependencies
> >>> are installed) and I get the following message:
> >>>
> >>> "RPM build errors:
> >>> 	File not found by glob: /var/tmp/freeradius-1.1.7-build/usr/lib/
> >>> freeradius/rlm_sql_oracle*.so*"
> >>
> >> configure is likely not finding your oracle headers.. Look at the
> >> output of
> >> configure (near the start of the build process)
> >
> > Thanks for the hint Peter, it helped a litte, but I am still having
> > problems.
> > I looked into the whole thing again and found out, that in the
> > SPECS-file the lib dir is set to:
> >
> > --with-oracle-lib-dir=%{_libdir}/oracle/10.1.0.3/client/lib/ \
> >
> > The newest version is Oracle 11.1.0.1, so I changed the directory, which
> > is now giving no "No oracle headers found" errors anymore (Is 10.1.0.3
> > the only supported version?). Now I am getting:
> >
> > "error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
> > /etc/raddb/postgresqlippool.conf"
> >
> > when running rpmbuild -ba freeradius.specs! Has anyone experienced these
> > problems before? Can anyone help me, please?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Cheers
> >
> > - Stefan
> >
> > --
> > stef (at) internetchefs (dot) de
>
> Sorry, my fault. I am still getting the "No oracle headers found" error. I
> have oracle-instantclient-basic (/usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1) and
> oracle-instantclient-devel (/usr/include/oracle/11.1.0.1).
>
> Looking for header files I tried
> --with-oracle-home-dir=/usr/include/oracle/11.1.0.1/client , due to the
> *.h files in that directory. That does not work. Any more hints? I do not
> know what else to do. I have tried both directories. It says checking for
> "oci.h" when running "./configure" and that file is in
> "/usr/include/oracle/11.1.0.1/client", but can not be found when I use
> this directory in "--with-oracle-home-dir=...".
>
> Thank you in advance and sorry for the wrong post earlier!

Hi Stefan

I had quite a lot of trouble getting FreeRADIUS to build against oracle 10g 
as it previously only worked with Oracle 8. I made some changes, including 
the spec file and module configure file to work with 10g (and wrote the 
minimal docs you see) however I have not built against Oracle for around 2 
years now, and never against Oracle 11.

The work I did was for a large customer who required integration with Oracle, 
however I actually use FreeRADIUS with Postgresql for most of the systems I 
deploy so I am by no means an Oracle expert.

Regards

-- 

Peter Nixon
http://peternixon.net/