Thanks Bazsi, with your valuable input I am successfully configure with --enable-static-linking option. While doing 'make' it is not able to find certain static libraries (*.a).
From where I can get these libraries. I have pasted the error message faced during 'make':

**********************************************************
>make
..
..
rm -f libsyslog-ng.a
ar cru libsyslog-ng.a misc.o utils.o messages.o syslog-names.o cfg.o cfg-lex.o cfg-grammar.o macros.o filter.o logmsg.o logpipe.o logsource.o driver.o sgroup.o dgroup.o center.o templates.o logreader.o logwriter.o affile.o afstreams.o afuser.o afprog.o afsocket.o afunix.o afinet.o afinter.o children.o stats.o gsockaddr.o fdwrite.o fdread.o memtrace.o dnscache.o apphook.o serialize.o logqueue.o afsql.o alarms.o globals.o
ranlib libsyslog-ng.a
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..   -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include   -I/opt/soe/local/syslog-ng-2.1.3/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 `test -f 'main.c' || echo './'`main.c; \
        then mv -f ".deps/main.Tpo" ".deps/main.Po"; \
        else rm -f ".deps/main.Tpo"; exit 1; \
        fi
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall   -o syslog-ng  main.o libsyslog-ng.a -static -lpthread -lresolv -lnsl -lrt -lsocket -ldoor  -ll -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv   -L/opt/soe/local/syslog-ng-2.1.3/eventlog/lib -levtlog
ld: fatal: library -lpthread: not found
ld: fatal: library -lresolv: not found
ld: fatal: library -lrt: not found
ld: fatal: library -ldoor: not found
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to syslog-ng
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [syslog-ng] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/syslog-prereq/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/syslog-prereq/syslog-ng-2.1.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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I have checked on my solaris 8 box, these libraries (libpthread.a, librt.a, libresolv, libdoor.a) are not available. >From where can I get required libraries? I have used gcc-3.4.6 compiler.

I tried to install gcc-4.2.3 on this Solaris box but not succeeded. :(

With Regards,
Chanchal Verma


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Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng-2.1.3: 'Configure' failed on Solaris 8 using --enable-static-linking





On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 12:43 +0530, Chanchal Verma wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have successfully build syslog-ng-2.1.3 with
> --enable-dynamic-linking on Solaris 8.
> While trying to build using --enable-static-linking option, it is not
> allowing me to configure syslog-ng-2.1.3 version on my Solaris 8 box
> (sparc). It is not able to find glib-2.0.a (Static library), though it
> is available in /usr/local/lib path.
>
> -rw-r--r--   1 root      2822036 Jan 15
> 06:21 /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.a
>
> Here is error message while doing compilation:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ./configure --enable-static-linking --prefix=/opt/syslog-ng-2.1.3
> ....
> ....
> checking whether to enable TCP wrapper support... no
> checking whether to enable spoof source support... no
> checking whether to enable IPv6 support... yes
> checking whether to enable SQL support... no
> checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/local/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.14... yes
> checking for GLIB - version >= 2.4.0... yes (version 2.13.0)
> checking for static GLib libraries... no
> checking sanity checking Glib headers... yes
> configure: error: static GLib libraries not found (a file named
> libglib-2.0.a), either link GLib dynamically using the
> --enable-dynamic-linking or install a static GLib
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have compiled glib-2.13.1 witn --enable-static option to get
> libglib-2.0.a library using gcc-3.4.6 compiler (same I am using for
> syslog-ng). Somehow syslog-ng is not able to find Static Glib during
> configure.

Are you sure syslog-ng finds the proper glib? the configure script uses
pkg-config to discover the available glib version, and pkg-config uses
PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable to find the relevant .pc files.

If you installed the static glib to /usr/local/lib, then your .pc file
should have been installed in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/glib-2.0.pc

You might have other glib installations, and provided your pkg-config
finds those first, your glib library won't be found.

I've found one suspicious thing that this is the case: you said you
installed glib 2.13.1 and the configure script states that it has found
2.13.0

Try this:

pkg-config --libs glib-2.0.pc

what does it display for you, I guess it points to a directory different
than /usr/local//lib

--
Bazsi

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