Building freeradius against mariadb client library

[Bill Schoolfield]

On 7/20/2023 5:05 PM, Matthew Newton via Freeradius-Users wrote:
> On 20/07/2023 22:38, Bill Schoolfield wrote:
>> It doesn't appear (we could be completely wrong here) that the mysql 
>> client libraries are available. I do see mention of them online in a 
>> package named default-libmysqlclient-dev but a package search using 
>> dpkg-query reveals nothing by that name.
>
>   # apt-cache search libmysqlclient
>   default-libmysqlclient-dev - MySQL database development files 
> (metapackage)
>
> dpkg-query won't query the repos, so you'll only see things that are 
> already installed.

Thanks I was using these command interchangeably. Debian is new to me 
and it seems there are many commands for getting info on packages.

>
>> I either need the appropriate packages for Debian, or I need to alter 
>> the build to use the mariadb library and includes. Perhaps modifying 
>> configure.ac to use mariadb_config?
>>
>> What is the solution here?
>
>   $ make deb

What does this link against?  Ideally I'd like mariadb clients and the 
mariadb server on this host only.

>
> or the simplest is to just use the packages we provide from Network 
> RADIUS:
>
>   https://packages.networkradius.com/

Considering this. The reason for building was we were a CentOS shop and 
the packaged FreeRadius was very old. We also (at the time) had our own 
module (written in C). That module has since been retired.

Bill