Hi, I have now libcap compiled statcally on my machine , but still I face the same error. the static libcap is present under /sur/locla/lib /usr/local/lib/libpcap.a But for some reason it does not seem to recognize that. gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -L/usr/local/lib -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/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 [root@CSCSVSLGG189v syslog-ng-3.0.7]# I have tried to tweak with the entry in the Makefile but that does not seem to help. DEPS_LIBS = -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 Please advice. Thanks & regards, Rakesh On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Gergely Nagy <algernon@balabit.hu> wrote:
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 14:24 +0530, Rakesh Rajasekharan wrote:
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
Looks like it needs libcap, a static version. -- |8]
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