Hi Kostyantyn, I have checked that all required static libraries (.a) are available at /usr/lib location. I also created linked at /usr/local/lib for all requried libraries. It is giving same error messages. Following libraries are checked available at /usr/lib: libnsl.a librt.a libfl.a libevtlog.a (Created linked from /opt/soe/local/syslog-ng-2.1.3/eventlog/lib/libevtlog.a) libnet.a libwrap.a Here below is error messages: ----------------------------------------------------------- Here below is error messge: Compilation option: [champ@ankit-lin syslog-ng-2.1.3]# ./configure --enable-static-linking --prefix=/opt/soe/local/syslog-ng-2.1.3 Make works fine uptill (Pasted last few lines): .. .. 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_BSD_SOURCE -D__BSD_SOURCE -D__FAVOR_BSD -DHAVE_NET_ETHERNET_H -D_GNU_SOUR CE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2 -Wall -MT globals.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/globals.Tpo" \ -c -o globals.o `test -f 'globals.c' || echo './'`globals.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/globals.Tpo" ".deps/globals.Po"; \ else rm -f ".deps/globals.Tpo"; exit 1; \ fi 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 l ogpipe.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_BSD_SOURCE -D__BSD_SOURCE -D__FAVOR_BSD -DHAVE_NET_ETHERNET_H -D_GNU_SOUR CE -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 -lnsl -lrt -lfl -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -L/opt/soe /local/syslog-ng-2.1.3/eventlog/lib -levtlog -lnet -lwrap make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3' Showing error message on standard output device: main.o(.text+0x5ec): In function `setup_creds': /home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src/main.c:324: Using 'initgroups' in statically linked applications requires at runtime t he shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking libsyslog-ng.a(misc.o)(.text+0x44d): In function `resolve_group': /home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src/misc.c:283: Using 'getgrnam' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../../libwrap.a(options.o)(.text+0x53c): In function `group_option': : Using 'endgrent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking libsyslog-ng.a(misc.o)(.text+0x3ed): In function `resolve_user': /home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src/misc.c:258: Using 'getpwnam' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o)(.text+0xbd8): In function `g_get_any_init_do': /home/soetest1/glib-2.16.0/glib/gutils.c:1646: Using 'getpwuid' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o)(.text+0xbc8):/home/soetest1/glib-2.16.0/glib/gutils.c:1645: Using 'setpwent' in st atically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o)(.text+0xbe3):/home/soetest1/glib-2.16.0/glib/gutils.c:1647: Using 'endpwent' in st atically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o)(.text+0x9d1):/home/soetest1/glib-2.16.0/glib/gutils.c:1589: Using 'getpwnam_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.a(gutils.o)(.text+0xa10):/home/soetest1/glib-2.16.0/glib/gutils.c:1595: Using 'getpwuid_r' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking libsyslog-ng.a(afinet.o)(.text+0x163): In function `afinet_resolve_name': /home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src/afinet.c:103: Using 'getaddrinfo' in statically linked applications requires at runtim e the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking libsyslog-ng.a(misc.o)(.text+0x1d1): In function `resolve_hostname': /home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src/misc.c:166: Using 'gethostbyaddr' in statically linked applications requires at runtim e the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking libsyslog-ng.a(misc.o)(.text+0xbd): In function `getlonghostname': /home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src/misc.c:71: Using 'gethostbyname' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../../libnet.a(libnet_resolve.o)(.text+0x4dc): In function `libnet_name2addr6 ': : Using 'gethostbyname2' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc versio n used for linking libsyslog-ng.a(afinet.o)(.text+0xb2): In function `afinet_set_port': /home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src/afinet.c:58: Using 'getservbyname' in statically linked applications requires at runti me the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3/../../../libwrap.a(hosts_access.o)(.text+0x862): In function `host_match': : undefined reference to `yp_get_default_domain' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [syslog-ng] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 ---------------------------------------------------- With Regards, Chanchal Verma Kostyantyn Gushtin <kgushtin@n-ix.com.ua> 01/09/2009 06:08 PM To Chanchal Verma/GIS/CSC@CSC cc Subject Re: [syslog-ng] Error encountered while building syslog-ng-2.1.3 on RHEL3 Chanchal Verma wrote: Hi Kostyantyn, Yes my compilation with --enable-dynamic-linking option works fine. I am facing problem while doing static compilation. I have followed the given steps but still getting error while doing 'make'. I am not sure how to use 'glib' option for compilation, I have libglib-2.0.a in '/usr/lib'. Now you really have problems with glibc :) . glib is just abstraction (on unix systems it use glibc). gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o syslog-ng main.o libsyslog-ng.a -static -lnsl -lrt -lfl -L/usr/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -L/opt/soe /local/syslog-ng-2.1.3/eventlog/lib -levtlog -lnet -lwrap make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/soetest1/syslog-ng-2.1.3'

From this command line you can retrieve info which static libraries you need (some of them are glibc libraries, some not ). So you must have thous libraries : libnsl.a (I saw linker error message that it can't find this library), librt.a, libfl.a, libevtlog.a, libnet.a, libwrap.a . Maybe you need to install glibc-devel package and/or others that contains such libraries.

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