Hi, Thanks David and Alan for this great advise, I will try it and post back.
Thanks! On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:56 AM, David Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Franz, > > In message <[email protected]>, > Franz <[email protected]> writes > > I have currently installed freeradius 2.1.10 and Mysql 5..5.10 on a >> pfsense >> box which is freebsd. I want this to work with mysql however I was >> wondering >> how to install freeradius with mysql support as I am unable to do it via >> ports or try any commands or flags with ./configure via tarball. Only >> pkg_add is available, can I recompile or install from scratch to get >> freeradius to bind to mysql? >> > > Alan has already given you the answer - you need a development environment. > pfSense does not contain compilers and other development tools to keep the > image size down. > > Another reason why pfSense does not contain development tools is because it > is arguably inappropriate to build software on a firewall. Maybe you are > using pfSense for some other task, though if you are using it as a firewall, > I would argue strongly that your RADIUS server should be running on another > machine inside your firewall. > > > You can't reconfigure a binary package - the configuration is burned in > when it is created, usually by the default options. It is nonsense to try to > pass configuration flags to pkg_add. > > The default options are always set for minimum external dependencies - if > you want features like SQL or LDAP support, you have to set the relevant > options yourself and rebuild the package. FreeBSD does not adopt the > approach of some Linux distributions, where the additional modules are > distributed in separate binary packages. > > > You will need to set the appropriate options for the net/freeradius2 port > and build a package using that port on a FreeBSD box of the appropriate > release and major version - ideally the minor version should also match, > though that doesn't usually matter. You can then pkg_add that package on the > pfSense machine. > > > pfSense 2.0 RC is based on FreeBSD 8.1 - amd64 for the 64 bit version and > i386 for the 32 bit version. > > pfSense 1.2.3 is based on FreeBSD 7.2 i386. > > > A virtual machine can be useful for building packages if you don't have > access to a FreeBSD machine. > > > When I maintained the FreeBSD FreeRADIUS ports, I was asked to create a > net/freeradius-mysql slave port for someone working on pfSense. This is > FreeRADIUS 1.x and should probably die. It isn't realistic to create slave > ports for all the dependencies that people might require - port bloat is > frowned on. > > > > With best wishes, > > > > > David > -- > David Wood > [email protected] > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html >
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