Network RADIUS packages and LDAP/SASL

[Adam Bishop]

On 26 Oct 2022, at 15:29, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
>  The error from FreeRADIUS is a *build* error.  i.e. at build time, the build determined that libldap didn't have ldap_sasl_interactive_bind.  And then refuses to even use it.
>
>  What happens at run time doesn't matter, because FreeRADIUS isn't even trying to use that function.

Ah, that makes sense.

>  You'll need to rebuild FreeRADIUS.

That's easy enough - just did a quick test (haven't pushed it into production to confirm any SASL mechs are usable) but adding `cyrus-sasl-devel` to the spec as a BuildRequire seems to change the configure output:

Before:

  ...
  checking for ldap_sasl_interactive_bind... yes
  ...
  checking for sasl/sasl.h in /usr/local/openldap/include/... no
  checking for sasl/sasl.h... no
  checking for sasl/sasl.h in /usr/local/include/... no
  checking for sasl/sasl.h in /opt/include/... no
  ...

After:

  ...
  checking for ldap_sasl_interactive_bind... yes
  ...
  checking for sasl/sasl.h in /usr/local/openldap/include/... yes
  ...


Though, `sasl.h` isn't in or linked to `/usr/local/openldap/include/` - autoconf weirdness?
WITH_SASL does get defined regardless of the path ./configure prints.

Thanks for the pointers,

Adam Bishop

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