Building freeradius against mariadb client library

[Bill Schoolfield]

Thanks, I have a lot to learn. Yes, this is perfect.

Bill

On 7/21/2023 10:38 AM, Matthew Newton via Freeradius-Users wrote:
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> On 21/07/2023 16:25, Bill Schoolfield wrote:
>> control.in requires: default-libmysqlclient-dev | libmysqlclient-dev
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>> I did install default-libmysqlclient-dev and freeradius built w/o 
>> error and rlm_sql is working.
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> On Debian12, default-libmysqlclient-dev is a metapackage, it contains 
> no files (except a changelog) and depends on libmariadb-dev-compat.
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> libmariadb-dev-compat depends on libmariadb-dev. The only significant 
> "files" it contains are symlinks from the mysql library filenames to 
> their mariadb counterparts.
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>> So I now have mysql and mariadb client libraries on this host. Our 
>> clients (apps) use the latter, freeradius uses the former to "talk" 
>> to a mariadb server. While I'm sure there are some differences these 
>> should be interchangeable. Seems unnecessary or maybe even ugly to 
>> have both though.
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> They're all the same files just symlinked, so there's no possibility 
> of any conflicts.
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>> While working this I realized we have the same situation with our 
>> perl scripts elsewhere that use DBI /DBD. They presently use mysql as 
>> well.
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> As I said before, I'm pretty sure Debian 12 doesn't have mysql at all. 
> It's all mariadb, but with compatibility names as everyone's called it 
> mysql for ever.
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> In fact, yes:
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> root at 55172a6329fe:/# apt-cache search mysql-server
> mariadb-server - MariaDB database server binaries
> mariadb-server-core - MariaDB database core server files
> default-mysql-server - MySQL database server binaries and system 
> database setup (metapackage)
> default-mysql-server-core - MySQL database server binaries (metapackage)
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> I don't think you need to worry about anything. Using the packages we 
> build will save you from having to build anything, too, if you wanted.
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