On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 09:56 +0200, Philipp Snizek wrote:

When compiling syslog-1.9.3 I get "ld: cannot find -levtlog"

If evtlog means the eventlog libraries from eventlog-0.2.2, they're located in /usr/local/lib (that's what the installation rouine sais). /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf and I ran ldconfig. I could install eventlog-0.2.2 without problems.

The exact error message:

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -g -o syslog-ng main.o misc.o utils.o messages.o gsockaddr.o syslog-names.o macros.o logmsg.o cfg.o logpipe.o driver.o sgroup.o dgroup.o center.o filter.o logsource.o logreader.o logwriter.o affile.o afunix.o afinet.o afsocket.o afstreams.o afuser.o afprog.o afinter.o cfg-lex.o cfg-grammar.o fdwrite.o fdread.o memtrace.o templates.o children.o -lnsl -Wl,-static -lfl -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -levtlog -Wl,-call_shared /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-slackware-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i486-slackware -linux/bin/ld: cannot find -levtlog collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

hmm. for some reason eventlog did not install a static library which it should. my version certainly installs a static version, and it is dubbed 0.2.3, upgrading might solve your problem. ps: be sure to use the latest snapshot as 1.9.3 is known to be broken in macro expansion -- Bazsi