Errors when building binary RPM on OL9

[Linus Hicks]

> From: Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users-bounces+linus.hicks=highstreetit.com at lists.freeradius.org
> On Behalf Of Alan DeKok
> $ tar -zxf freeradius-server-3.2.3.tar.gz $ cd  freeradius-server-3.2.3 $ make rpm
>
>   What else is there to do?  This is documented on the Wiki, among other places.
>
>   This is also the process we use to build the RPMs we make available on
> http://packages.networkradius.com

I had not looked at networkradius.com as I am not looking for commercial support.

I have been reading the documentation and found the Wiki here: https://wiki.freeradius.org/Home
Saw the link for Pre-built packages that sent me here: https://wiki.freeradius.org/building/Pre-built-Packages
Did not see one that looked suitable for RHEL (which seemed strange) in the list of Official packages.
Saw the link for Building from source code that sent me here: https://wiki.freeradius.org/building/Home
Saw the section on Building Packages.
Saw the link for RHEL and Centos platform specific that sent me here: https://wiki.freeradius.org/building/RHEL%20and%20Centos#building-packages
Read the section on Building Packages, but it didn't actually tell how to build the package. It just talks about building with Oracle support, Upgrading GCC, and libkqueue. I don't care to include Oracle database support in the freeradius I install; the GCC I'm using is above the minimum stated; and I'm not building a v4 freeradius so none of those sections applies to me. I see nothing on that web page showing what command(s) to run to build an RPM package for freeradius, so for lack of any other directions, plus what I read in the section on Oracle support, I assumed it was a standard rpmbuild.

In the section where it talks about building a package with Oracle support, I read the following (although the spec file doesn't actually have that define statement) which suggests using rpmbuild but doesn't explicitly say:

" If you have the Oracle header files in a sane location it should be a simple matter of taking the latest FreeRADIUS release tarball and dropping it in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES along with the other files from the suse/ or redhat/ directory inside the tarball with the exception of freeradius.spec which goes in /usr/src/packages/SPECS

Then edit /usr/src/packages/SPECS/freeradius.spec and change:

%define _oracle_support 0

to:

%define _oracle_support 1 "


And "make rpm" doesn't work (assuming there's no difference between the gz and bz2 files besides the compression method);

[lhicks at radius build]$ tar -xjf freeradius-server-3.2.3.tar.bz2
[lhicks at radius build]$ cd freeradius-server-3.2.3/
[lhicks at radius freeradius-server-3.2.3]$ ls -l
total 732
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks  49448 May 26 09:56 config.guess
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks  34286 May 26 09:56 config.sub
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 lhicks lhicks 426915 May 26 09:56 configure
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks  67997 May 26 09:56 configure.ac
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks   4985 May 26 09:56 CONTRIBUTING
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks   2855 May 26 09:56 COPYRIGHT
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks     66 May 26 09:56 CREDITS
drwxr-xr-x.  5 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 debian
drwxr-xr-x. 12 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 doc
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks   7257 May 26 09:56 INSTALL.rst
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 lhicks lhicks   5628 May 26 09:56 install-sh
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks  18011 May 26 09:56 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x.  2 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 m4
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks     66 May 26 09:56 main.mk
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks  12937 May 26 09:56 Makefile
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks   4594 May 26 09:56 Make.inc.in
drwxr-xr-x.  5 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 man
drwxr-xr-x.  2 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 mibs
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 lhicks lhicks   6872 May 26 09:56 missing
drwxr-xr-x.  8 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 raddb
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks   7261 May 26 09:56 README.rst
drwxr-xr-x.  2 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 redhat
drwxr-xr-x. 19 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 scripts
drwxr-xr-x.  2 lhicks lhicks  12288 May 26 09:56 share
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks    365 May 26 09:56 site.yml
drwxr-xr-x.  7 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 src
drwxr-xr-x.  2 lhicks lhicks   4096 May 26 09:56 suse
-rw-r--r--.  1 lhicks lhicks      6 May 26 09:56 VERSION
[lhicks at radius freeradius-server-3.2.3]$ make rpm
make: *** No rule to make target '.git/HEAD', needed by 'freeradius-server-3.2.3.tar.bz2'.  Stop.

Maybe the web pages need to be updated or something is wrong with the linked pages because I don't see the package build documentation you shared.

Please advise.
Linus

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