[syslog-ng]1.6rc2 build problem

[Aaron Jackson]

I just got finished building 1.6rc2 on a Solaris 8 system with gcc 
3.2.2.   The problem I ran into was that the build stopped with the 
following error:

Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
yywrap                              cfg-lex.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to syslog-ng
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `syslog-ng'
Current working directory /export/home/jackson/syslog-ng-1.6.0rc2/src

As it turns out, I just installed gcc3.2.2 on /usr/local.  The problem 
is that the freeware packages Sun distributes with Solaris install on 
/opt/sfw.  Therefore the gcc just I installed does not look in 
/opt/swf/lib by default.  I just edited LDFLAGS (-L/opt/sfw) LIBS (-lfl) 
in src/Makefile and everything compiled file.

Looking into config.cache I see that configure couldn't find libfl 
(ac_cv_lib_fl_yywrap=${ac_cv_lib_fl_yywrap='no'}).  It would seem that 
if libfl is required in order to build syslog-ng, that either the build 
process should stop if it is not found, or you should be able to give it 
as an option to configure.  Of course, this is only a problem if  flex 
is not installed in gcc's default search path.

This is a minor nit, but I thought I would mention it.

Aaron