It's not that syslog-ng wouldn't compile, it didn't properly link because -lresolv wasn't included as one of the linking libraries. Once I added it to the Makefile everything compiled, linked and ran fine. Aaron Balazs Scheidler wrote:
Hi,
for those complaining that syslog-ng 1.5.21 didn't compile because of a missing res_init function, apply this patch:
diff -u -r1.55 configure.in --- configure.in 27 Sep 2002 09:11:33 -0000 1.55 +++ configure.in 29 Sep 2002 11:59:12 -0000 @@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ AC_FUNC_VPRINTF AC_CHECK_LIB(door, door_create) AC_CHECK_FUNCS(select snprintf vsnprintf strerror inet_aton strncpy getutent) +AC_CHECK_FUNCS(res_init) AC_CHECK_FUNC(getopt_long,,[LIBOBJS="getopt.o getopt1.o $LIBOBJS"]) AC_CHECK_FUNC(strcasecmp,,[LIBOBJS="strcasecmp.o $LIBOBJS"]) AC_CHECK_FUNC(strptime,,[LIBOBJS="strptime.o $LIBOBJS"]) diff -u -r1.44 main.c --- src/main.c 4 Sep 2002 14:52:25 -0000 1.44 +++ src/main.c 29 Sep 2002 11:59:12 -0000 @@ -222,7 +222,9 @@ if (sighuprecvd) { sighuprecvd = 0; if (!backend->super.reloading) { +#if HAVE_RES_INIT res_init(); +#endif notice("SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng\n"); if (!debug_flag) { set_error_stream(2, 0);