[syslog-ng]Compiling syslog-ng-1.9.3 on OpenBSD 3.6?

[Balazs Scheidler]

As you know syslog-ng 1.9.3 is a reimplementation, and as until now I
focused on functionality and features, relatively little care has been
taken to make the code cleanly compile on all platforms out of the box.

Anyway, reports like this are greatly appreciated, and I'm fixing
problems that you encounter. Please find my answers inline:

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 20:48 -0600, Kevin wrote:
> I encounter a strange error related to the variable 'timezone' when attempting
> to compile syslog-ng-1.9.3 on OpenBSD 3.6.  Suggestions appreciated.
> 
> First problem I found was easily addressed:
>     main.c
>     main.c:39: wait.h: No such file or directory
> 
> Replacing line 39 (#include <wait.h>) with these three lines solved that issue:
>     #include <sys/time.h>
>     #include <sys/resource.h>
>     #include <sys/wait.h>

Looking at the manpage for waitpid() its synopsis tells me to include
<sys/types.h> and <sys/wait.h>, I added those. I can't see why you need
sys/time.h and sys/resource.h Are there other error messages as well?

> 
> After resolving that issue, I encounter the following:
>     echo './'`logmsg.c
>     logmsg.c: In function `log_stamp_format':
>     logmsg.c:68: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
>     logmsg.c: In function `log_msg_parse':
>     logmsg.c:234: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
>     logmsg.c:237: invalid operands to binary -
>     logmsg.c:265: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
>     logmsg.c: In function `log_msg_init':
>     logmsg.c:470: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
>     *** Error code 1
> 
> These lines are as follows:
>      68: target_zone_offset = timezone;
>     234: self->stamp.zone_offset = timezone; /* assume local timezone */
>     237: self->stamp.time.tv_sec = mktime(&tm) - timezone +
> self->stamp.zone_offset;
>     265: self->stamp.zone_offset = timezone; /* assume local timezone */
>     470: self->recvd.zone_offset = timezone;
> 
> In OpenBSD, timezone is a function, char *timezone(int, int), not a variable.
> it appears that older versions of syslog-ng included options in configure for
> "checking for global timezone variable", but not in 1.9.3?

Hmm. syslog-ng 1.6.x used timezone only for formatting the zone offset
in syslog messages, however 1.9.x has complete timezone support
(timezone can be specified in incoming messages, on a per-source and on
the global basis) So I definitely need the current timezone offset,
relative to GMT, calculated in seconds, just as the global variable
'timezone' contains this on for example Linux and a couple of other
platforms.

This variable is part of SUS, if I understand correctly. Can you help me
what to use on OpenBSD instead?

(the timezone function is not good)

-- 
Bazsi