Thanks.  The issue had to do with the pkg-config search path (defined by the PKG_CONFIG_PATH, which was missing on my system).  In case it helps anyone else, it was fixed by adding/editing the following lines on the .bash_profile file in my home directory as follows:
 
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
export PATH
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PATH
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 
 

From: nexact [mailto:nexact@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:11 AM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Cc: Paul Jasa
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Eventlog NOT FOUND despite installation
Importance: High

not a lot of people having this issue...
just check if evtlog is installed by doing:
 pkg-config --list-all | grep event

if it's not installed, you will need to install it.


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Paul Jasa <pjasa@univision.net> wrote:

Hi, Syslog-NG will not install, no matter what version (tried 5
different ones 2.0.x, including the latest 2.1.3).  All the installs end
with the exact same error (pasted below) pointing to a missing
"eventlog" (not sure whether it's called evtlog or eventlog, but same
thing).  I'm running RHEL 5.
I've installed eventlog N times, including once with an RPM found at
www.pbone.net .  I see eventlog, it's there, but not where the syslog-ng
script wants it.

Seems a LOT of people are having this same issue.   I looked through the
lists and tried several solutions to no avail. Could a definitive fix be
done to the eventlog installation script, and/or the syslog-ng
installation script?

Is there a known fix?

Thanks.
Paul J.

--------------Running ./configure on RHEL 5--------------

checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for EVTLOG... no
configure: error: Cannot find eventlog version >= 0.2: is pkg-config in
path?
-----------INSTALLATION STOPS HERE---------------

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