It should install to /usr/local/mysql by default (if I remember correctly). When you unpack the tarball, you'll notice an INSTALL-SOURCE file. It contains much more detailed information than I can provide along with some suggestions for building the binaries under FreeBSD (4.7). However, I should note that the only special options I added were simply to install it in a different directory so it's up to you.
I will try the newest version source, should I just make sure it installs to
the same path to ensure a proper upgrade? Any special commands I need to run
at configure to ensure a clean install?
Just make sure that after you install the latest version of MySQL you rebuild FreeRADIUS after running a make distclean (just to be on the safe side--at least this is what I usually do... saves having to unpack the tarball again). If it is able to find all of your libraries, it should build rlm_sql_mysql* and hopefully you will be able to get it up and running :-)
As an aside, I haven't had many problems with the ports/packages collection with FreeBSD -- but then, I usually only install oddball software from the ports or binaries I'm too lazy to build myself. I've never actually tried installing MySQL from the ports collection before although I can't imagine it would have failed...
Let me know if downloading the source tarball helps out!
~Benjamin
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