rlm_perl build on mac osx
Arran Cudbard-Bell
A.Cudbard-Bell at sussex.ac.uk
Sat Jan 19 14:42:18 CET 2008
Info wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Thanks for your quick response! Yes, I'm aware that apple has included
> FR into Leopard and am curious to see how it works in that version of
> the OS once I move to it eventually. However, for the Tiger users of
> which I'll remain for a while, I'd like to provide ease of installation
> via macports.
>
FR 1.1.6 is included in leopard with patches from Apple to make it work
with the open directory services/ server admin stuff.
I ran into exactly the same issue as you when attempting to build on
leopard server, works fine on a machine with exactly the same
architecture running tiger...
> Though a build-able 1.1.7 is available via macports right now, it needs
> a patch -- which may be a moot point now that 2.0 is here and it fixes
> the trouble that stripping the binaries (i.e, the INSTALLSTRIP -s
> switch) caused.
>
> I'll look more into the PATH setting for building against 5.10. Perhaps
> adding the PERL5LIB variable in my env will do the trick.
>
> Jim
>
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> On Jan 18, 2008, at 3:19 PM, A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
> <mailto:A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> several folk run FreeRADIUS on MacOSX already - and Apple even
> have added code themselves - I believe FR is the fundamental
> EAP system in eg latest airport/timecapsule product (though
> I may be wrong on that aspect of usage! ;-) )
It is, but apple include 1.1.6 not 2.0.0, very few people have attempted
to build FR 2 on leopard server.
>
>> 2] Is perl only a build dependency for rlm_perl, or does the module make
>> runtime calls to external perl libs?
>
> correct. its only for rlm_perl
>
>> 3] I've discovered with an install of perl 5.10 that, during configure
>> (of
>> freeradius 2), the linker chooses the /System/Library/5.8.6... over
>> the new
>> perl ( at {prefix}/lib/perl/5.10.0 ). The only thing I can guess is that
>> when searching for perl libs/includes, the linker only expands to seek
>> version n.n.n and does not recognize a two digit subversion n.nn.n. If
>> that's what's happening, is that patchable?
>
> or likely its a PATH problem and you have to tell it where your 5.10.0
> is living.
>
> alan
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