You might be right but my subject line should give you a clue about who I am. A complete beginner. I guess this list is not only for experts. I already recognized the huge amounts of effort you put into creating the server and I really mean it.
I also recognize that you tried to help me , but Alan, just because someone is an expert this doesn't mean that he/she have the right to criticize the ones that are not. I am here for help not to be criticized, and may be the mistakes I made can help you to change things that will save you time when other beginner arrives. Anyway we are wasting our time and bandwidth. I am going to try to figure out then I'll be the only one to blame myself for my mistakes. Jair Santos > -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] us.org] On Behalf Of Alan DeKok > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:06 AM > To: FreeRadius users mailing list > Subject: Re: Newbie question > > > Jair Santos wrote: > > Please understand that when we, as users, go to a site to > download a > > program, the site structure and distribution of information is > > completely new. We , (I) try to understand it but we have > no time to > > read everything. I believe that this is normal and yes , we make > > mistakes. Don't you ? > > The difficulty is that there are 3-4 places where the > correct thing is documented. You managed to miss them *all*. > You read one thing on a page, and missed other things > written on the same page. > > This is actually pretty common. I don't understand why it > happens, though. > > > So please, don't try to give us (me) lessons about how to look for > > information. I am an old guy and I stiil need much more > time to learn > > new things . I don't need one more person to criticise my > mistakes or > > laziness to read a 200 pages web site in order to > understand the whole > > picture. > > Uh... no. You read the page with the CVS instructions. > One page. You missed the text right above the CVS > instructions saying "see git.freeradius.org". > > It's about *us* putting huge amounts of effort into > creating the server, documenting it, and answering questions > on this list. And yet... it's never enough. No matter how > much documentation is written, some people still ignore it... > and get upset when told they're ignoring it. > > > Yes I did click on the link 2.1.1 on the main web page. > That was the first > > thing I did. These files didn't compile. It was NOT > because the linker on > > my system chooses the wrong libs as you can see from the > log. There is > > another reason and I don't know it. > > > > configure:21137: gcc -o conftest -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT > > I'll call bait & switch on this one. The ORIGINAL problem > you posted was from the output of "make", not "configure": > > /usr/lib/libreadline.so: could not read symbols: File in wrong format > > i.e. it's a 32/64-bit problem. > > The output you posted from "configure" is different, and > meaningless. Pretending it's the same problem is > disingenuous. The "errors" are part of the tests configure > does to figure out which libraries are needed. Part of the > tests involves *failed* compilations... so that it knows that > a particular combination of libraries didn't work. And it > then tries other libraries. > > > I am still trying to make this work and I thank very much > all of you > > who are helping me out. > > Another message in the same thread was from someone at > Redhat. Who posted a link to pre-built RPM's for fedora. > Which includes 64-bit versions. > > If you had checked the link, you would have discovered > this. Instead, you asked on the email list if the link > included a 64-bit version. > > And if you read the list, you know that I help a *lot* of > people here. I'm also trying to help you. Convincing you to > read the documentation I've already written is one of the > ways I can help you. If this is too painful, feel free to > ignore all of my messages to the list. > > Alan DeKok. > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
