net/freeradius - fixed for RELENG_7 amd64 and 6.x with gcc 4.2

[Wes Morgan]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, David Wood wrote:

> (ade@ cc'd as maintainer of devel/libtool)
>
> Dear all,
>
> I posted previously on the ports mailing list about problems that were 
> showing up with net/freeradius when built with gcc 4.2 on 6.x and on 7.x 
> amd64.
>
> At that time I was wondering if there was an arcane problem in the toolchain, 
> maybe in libtool. In fact, the solution appears to be straightforward, and 
> not libtool's fault. radiusd was being built -pie, which was the default from 
> upstream. Patching the upstream Makefile.in to remove -pie seems to resolve 
> both problems. Thanks to Sean McNeil for the report.
>
>
> The moral of the story appears to be "don't use -pie with libtool". I have no 
> idea why the upstream Makefile.in is like this; I will chase it with the 
> FreeRADIUS developers.
>
>
> I've just submitted ports/118425
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118425
> which should fix that, as well as chasing a heimdal shared library version 
> bump.
>
>
> I believe those two fixes may qualify for committing during the current ports 
> freeze; I've alerted portmgr@ separately.
>
> I've also incorporated a couple of other outstanding fixes, though I realise 
> that they may well not qualify to be committed alongside the others because 
> of the ports freeze.


HMMMM... A seemingly silimar issue came up a while back. It was supposed 
to have been fixed -

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2007-May/078660.html

I wonder if perhaps there is something more that needs to be done.