Just wondering if there has been any resolution or recommendation on the dependency of libunwind in the base syslog-ng package?
From: Hofi <hofione@gmail.com>
Sent: October 29, 2025 8:21 AM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: [syslog-ng]Re: Version 4.10.2 of syslog-ng is now available
Sorry for the inconvenience!
We will discuss this and let you know the result next week.
Thanks for reporting the problem.
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Hofi - Istvan Hoffmann
On Oct 29, 2025 at 16:16 +0100, Evan Rempel <erempel@uvic.ca>, wrote:
That's good information. Referring to the current RPM from /ose-repo.syslog-ng.com/yum/
I am no longer able to install the base syslog-ng package on a vanilla RHEL8/9 system.
This base package now has a dependency on libunwind that has never been there before. That's why I think this is an oversight in the build of this latest RPM.
I understand that many of the additional RPMs for syslog-ng require the EPEL repository. Until now this was not a requirement of the base syslog-ng package.
From: Hofi <hofione@gmail.com>
Sent: October 29, 2025 8:02 AM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: [syslog-ng]Re: Version 4.10.2 of syslog-ng is now available
Libunwind is used to provide better crash reporting (and is also very helpful in debug builds).
It can be disabled using the `--disable-stackdump` or `-DENABLE_STACKDUMP=OFF` configure option.
The default state of this option is now `AUTO`, which checks for the presence of the libunwind library and automatically enables the stackdump feature if it is available.
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Hofi - Istvan Hoffmann