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Compilation Error?

The Oracle client being installed (11g R2 in my setup), Freeradius doesn’t seem to find Oracle headers.
I get the following error message:

Error compiling Oracle/Freeradius
configure: WARNING: oracle headers not found.
Use –with-oracle-home-dir=<path>.
configure: WARNING: silently not building rlm_sql_oracle.
configure: WARNING: FAILURE: rlm_sql_oracle requires: oci.h.

 
Specifying the path to –with-oracle-home-dir doesn’t change anything at all.
 
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Tags: compile, Freeradius, Oracle

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