Newbie question

[Maxim Sirenko]

It is always better to install from packages that belong to your distro.
Install FreeRadius from repository of Red Hat ES

And for FreeBSD people it is better to install from ports.

There will not be problems with linkers and compilers.
Everything was thought about hundreds times.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan DeKok" <aland at deployingradius.com>
To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie question


> Jair Santos wrote:
>>  I just got into this list and I am trying to instal in a RedHat ES 5.2,
>> 64 bits.
>>
>> I ran ./configure and when I ran make I got the following error.
> ...
>> /usr/lib/libreadline.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
>
>  You have both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries on your system.  Fix your
> compiler && linker so that they choose the correct libraries.
>
>  i.e. FreeRADIUS asks to link to a library, and the linker chooses the
> wrong one... and then complains it's not the right one.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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