Installation failure during make and general confusion

[Alan Buxey]

dont use the apt-get version unless it provides you with 3.0.15 . -
use git but get 3.0.15 and not 4 - 4 is very bleeding edge

alan

On 19 July 2017 at 11:31, Mathieu Devos <mathieu.devos at intopalo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently started as a part time system admin at this work, and in an
> effort to upgrade our systems we're looking at installing a RADIUS
> server. We only have 1 office, with around 50 employees, who all have
> the same access rights (just plain Internet access). As such the idea
> is to set up a very straightforward authentication RADIUS server, no
> need for accounting yet.
>
> My eye spotted freeradius, and I've started working with it.
> Throughout the Internet I found a mixed bag of tutorials (quite
> confusing tbh) who mostly all suggest to run apt-get install
> freeradius and just work with that. Now I've tried that but ran into
> issues when moving towards TTLS (maybe another email will follow once
> I have set that up).
> I also found the git repo, and have cloned this (I'm on the v4
> branch), however, the ./configure runs properly fine.
>
> I have attempted to run the ./configure as both normal user, and as
> root, both with the same output (they complete).
> However running the make is where issues arise. I'm not getting very
> far in this entire endeavor.
>
> CC src/protocols/dhcpv4/packet.c
> In file included from src/protocols/dhcpv4/packet.c:31:0:
> src/freeradius-devel/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.h:138:1: error: unknown type name
> ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  RADIUS_PACKET *fr_dhcpv4_udp_packet_recv(int sockfd);
>  ^
> src/freeradius-devel/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.h:139:31: error: unknown type name
> ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  int fr_dhcpv4_udp_packet_send(RADIUS_PACKET *packet);
>                                ^
> src/freeradius-devel/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.h:146:1: error: unknown type name
> ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  RADIUS_PACKET *fr_dhcpv4_packet_ok(uint8_t const *data, ssize_t
> data_len, fr_ipaddr_t src_ipaddr,
>  ^
> src/freeradius-devel/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.h:169:30: error: unknown type name
> ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  int  fr_dhcpv4_packet_decode(RADIUS_PACKET *packet);
>                               ^
> src/freeradius-devel/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.h:171:30: error: unknown type name
> ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  int  fr_dhcpv4_packet_encode(RADIUS_PACKET *packet);
>                               ^
> In file included from src/protocols/dhcpv4/packet.c:31:0:
> src/freeradius-devel/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.h:180:70: error: unknown type name
> ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  int  fr_dhcpv4_raw_packet_send(int sockfd, struct sockaddr_ll *p_ll,
> RADIUS_PACKET *packet);
>                                                                       ^
> src/freeradius-devel/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.h:182:1: error: unknown type name
> ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  RADIUS_PACKET *fr_dhcv4_raw_packet_recv(int sockfd, struct
> sockaddr_ll *p_ll, RADIUS_PACKET *request);
>  ^
> src/freeradius-devel/dhcpv4/dhcpv4.h:182:79: error: unknown type name
> ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  RADIUS_PACKET *fr_dhcv4_raw_packet_recv(int sockfd, struct
> sockaddr_ll *p_ll, RADIUS_PACKET *request);
>                                                                                ^
> src/protocols/dhcpv4/packet.c:101:29: error: unknown type name ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  int fr_dhcpv4_packet_decode(RADIUS_PACKET *packet)
>                              ^
> src/protocols/dhcpv4/packet.c:295:29: error: unknown type name ‘RADIUS_PACKET’
>  int fr_dhcpv4_packet_encode(RADIUS_PACKET *packet)
>                              ^
> scripts/boiler.mk:635: recipe for target
> '/home/vagrant/freeradius-server/build/objs/src/protocols/dhcpv4/packet.lo'
> failed
> make: *** [/home/vagrant/freeradius-server/build/objs/src/protocols/dhcpv4/packet.lo]
> Error 1
>
>
> this is the output I'm getting from make.
> As such my questions are the following:
> 1) how to fix this issue?
> 2) should I just ignore the entire git repo and straightforward run
> apt-get install freeradius
>
> BR,
> Mathieu
>
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