[syslog-ng] Compilation Woes on RHEL 5

[Chuck]

I am trying to build syslog-ng 2.0.6 with eventlog installed into
/usr/local/eventlog-0.2.5/.  configure is complaining it can't find
eventlog or pkg-config:

checking for GLIB... yes
checking for EVTLOG... no
configure: error: Cannot find eventlog version >= 0.2: is pkg-config in path?
charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #which pkg-config


I have tried adding the /usr/local/eventlog-0.2.5/lib path to
/etc/ld.so.conf (and reconfiguring ld).
charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #ldconfig -p  | grep eventlog
        libevtlog.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/local/eventlog-0.2.5/lib/libevtlog.so.0
        libevtlog.so (libc6) => /usr/local/eventlog-0.2.5/lib/libevtlog.so


I have tried defining this in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I have also tried
explicitly setting LDFLAGS (for the libs) and CPPFLAGS (for the
includes) in the environment I'n running configure from. I am unable
to get configure to find these libraries.

It also complains it can't find pkg-config, however this pkg-config is
under /usr/bin and the shell I'm running this from has no problems
findind it:

charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #which pkg-config
/usr/bin/pkg-config

charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #pkg-config --version
0.21

I don't want to install the eventlog libraries directly under /lib or
/usr/local/lib.

Is there any way to do this?

Thanks for any help,
CC