FreeRADIUS failing to build the rlm_eap_tls modules

[joe]

Hello, folks!  (Thanks SO much David Wood!  I owe you!)

I already have the solution, as assisted by the port maintainer 
(David).  However, I'm posting to this list to get the solution into the 
archives so that if anyone else runs into this situation, there IS 
something in the archives on it.

Situation:

I had a 5.1-RELEASE server that was upgraded to a 5.3-RELEASE, and then  
to 6.2-RELEASE this past weekend (and also used cvsup to update the 
ports collection).  At that point, I tried installing a new port (not an 
upgrade) of FreeRADIUS 1.1.4.  The port successfully built, and 
started.  But when I tried to configure and use EAP-TLS, I got errors 
about the rlm_eap_tls.so extension not being found.  I rebuilt the port 
by patching the source by hand, and running the configure line from the 
config.log file.  In the process of the ./configure script, there were 
many lines such as :

configure: WARNING: silently not building rlm_eap_peap.
configure: WARNING: FAILURE: rlm_eap_peap requires: OpenSSL.

and

configure: WARNING: silently not building rlm_eap_tls.
configure: WARNING: FAILURE: rlm_eap_tls requires: OpenSSL.

That obviously is going to not compile the extensions that I needed.  As 
per the maintainer's suggestion, I ran a portsnap, which brought the 
port revision to 1.1.4_1 for FreeRADIUS.  This exhibited the same situation.

Solution:

I ended up removing the openssl-0.9.7d package (I don't know if it was 
from the 5.1 or 5.3 systems as a carry over), and installing the 
security/openssl port.  At that point, the FreeRADIUS package built 
perfectly fine.

Notes:

If anyone finds that the rlm_eap_?tls or rlm_eap_peap modules are not 
building, make sure your OpenSSL port is up-to-date!

Joe