[syslog-ng]Anyone Get Syslog-NG To Compile on Red Hat?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 16:53, Rhugga wrote:
> I am trying to get syslog-ng 1.6.5 compiled on a RH 9 system. I compiled 
> libol into /usr/local/libol-0.3.14.
> 
> I tried the following configuration options when trying to build sysllg-ng:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/syslog-ng-1.6.5 
> --with-libol=/usr/local/libol-0.3.14/lib 
> --with-libnet=/usr/local/libol-0.3.14/bin/
> /configure --prefix=/usr/local/syslog-ng-1.6.5 
> --with-libol=/usr/local/libol-0.3.14/lib 
> --with-libnet=/usr/local/libol-0.3.14
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/syslog-ng-1.6.5 
> --with-libol=/usr/local/libol-0.3.14/lib 
> --with-libnet=/usr/local/libol-0.3.14/bin/libol-config
> 
> Each time is complains that it cannot find libol-config:
> 
> <snip>
> checking for strptime... yes
> checking for TCP wrapper library... -lwrap
> checking whether to enable Sun STREAMS support... no
> checking whether to enable Sun door support... no
> checking whether to enable TCP wrapper support... no
> checking whether to enable spoof_source support... no
> checking libol version >= 0.3.14... configure: error: libol-config not 
> found in the specified location
> 
> Here is libol-config:
> syslog:~/syslog-ng-1.6.5 #ls -la /usr/local/libol-0.3.14/bin/
> total 36
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 27 07:22 .
> drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         4096 Aug 27 07:22 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1288 Aug 27 07:22 libol-config
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        24264 Aug 27 07:22 make_class
> 
> It finds the libol library correctly, otherwise it dies before it 
> reaches this error. It just doesn't properly detect libol-config.

you have to specify the root directory of libol, or add the directory to
libol-config to your current PATH. --with-libol is meant to be used when
you don't install libol itself.

--with-libnet is completely different, it is needed only if you specify
--enable-spoof-source

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Bazsi