I am finding no success trying to compile syslog-ng 3.0.7 on the RHEL machine using the --enable-static-linking mode. I get stuck in the make stage. I am using GNU gcc 3.4.5 version .Below is the error that appears in make.

gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/opt/soe/local/syslog-ng-3.0.7/eventlog/include/eventlog -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2 -Wall -MT main.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/main.Tpo -c -o main.o main.c
mv -f .deps/main.Tpo .deps/main.Po
gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -o syslog-ng main.o libsyslog-ng.a -static -lrt -lnsl -lfl -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -liconv -L/opt/soe/local/syslog-ng-3.0.7/eventlog/lib -levtlog -ldl -lwrap -lcap globals.o
/usr/local/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lcap
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [syslog-ng] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/compile/syslog-ng-3.0.7/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/compile/syslog-ng-3.0.7'
make: *** [all] Error 2