Newbie question

[Jair Santos]

Alan,

I understand and I am really gratefull for all the work you guys have done
in this project.

Please understand that when we, as users, go to  a site to download  a
program,  the site structure and distribution of information is completely
new. We , (I)  try to understand it but we have no time to read everything.
I believe that this is normal and yes , we make mistakes. Don't you ? 

So please, don't try to give us (me) lessons about how to look for
information. I am an old guy and I stiil need much more time to learn  new
things . I don't need one more person to criticise my mistakes or laziness
to read a 200 pages web site in order to understand the whole picture.

You are guessing too much and you are guessing wrong.

Yes I did click on the link 2.1.1 on the main web page. That was the first
thing I did. These files didn't compile. It was  NOT because   the linker on
my system chooses the wrong libs as you can see from the log. There is
another reason and I don't know it.

configure:21137: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT
-D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS   conftest.c -lnsl -lresolv  -lpthread -lreadline
>&5
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `PC'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgetflag'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgetent'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `UP'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tputs'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgoto'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgetnum'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `BC'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libreadline.so:
undefined reference to `tgetstr'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:21143: $? = 1


I am still trying to make this work and I thank very much all of you who are
helping me out.

Jair Santos


 
 
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> freeradius-users-bounces+jairds=shaw.ca at lists.freeradius.org 
> [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+jairds=shaw.ca at lists.freeradi
us.org] On Behalf Of Alan DeKok
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:12 PM
> To: FreeRadius users mailing list
> Subject: Re: Newbie question
> 
> 
> Jair Santos wrote:
> > Well guys, let's clarify.
> 
>   You didn't click on the link for 2.1.1 on the main web 
> page: freeradius.org.  Instead, you clicked on the "download" 
> link.  You didn't click on the "tar" file link for 2.1.1 on 
> that page, either.  You didn't click on the 
> "git.freeradius.org" link for the new server source.  
> Instead, you followed the instructions for "other projects".
> 
>   And when you're wandering around the net looking for why 
> there are issues with SNMP, you don't read the "changelog" in 
> the most recent version.
> 
>   Honestly... there *is* a lot of effort put into documenting 
> the server.  Yet sometimes people put a lot of effort into 
> *ignoring* that documentation.  They look everywhere else 
> *but* the main web page... and the files that come with the server.
> 
>   Can you explain why?  I've never been able to understand it.
> 
> > I have no control about the files that are there. I would 
> like to have 
> > the latest version, that is AFAIK 2.1.1.
> 
>   Which is available from the links above.
> 
> > The point is that when I tried to download from 
> www.freeradius.org it 
> > didn't compile for my Read Hat ES version 5.2,  64 bits.
> 
>   Because your system has both 32-bit && 64-bit libraries.  
> When the build system asks to link to a library, the linker 
> on your system chooses the wrong one... and then complains.  Nice!
> 
> > I'll be really grateful if someone could tell exacly where I can 
> > download v 2.1.1 from that will  work for my linux distribution.
> 
>   If you look at the main "download" page, there's a link to 
> pre-built binaries for Fedora.  There's even an x86_64 link, 
> which has RPM's for an older version (2.0.5)
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
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