[syslog-ng] glibc 2.0.6

[Alexander Clouter]

Hi,

Raffaele <raffaele at unipr.it> [20071018 17:44:39 +0200]:
>
> > > I need to compile syslog-ng with glibc 2.0.6 (don't tell me to upgrade
> > > the system... it's another 'sad system administration without power
> > > story'), can anyone tell me if any older version of syslog-ng work with
> > > this glibc?
> > >
> >
> > *cough* static compile *cough*
> 
> I'm not so smart but surely you have a cold :)
> Can you explain a bit more?
> 
Statically compiling something means that you get an executable application 
that has no dependencies on any libraries.  So although the local machine 
might only have glib 2.0.6, you could compile it on another machine against 
2.3.6 statically and then copy the resulting (sizable) binary to the 'legacy' 
system.

Simply put, it merges all the required libraries (what you would see when you 
type 'ldd \sbin\syslog-ng'[1] into a single independent file that can run on 
it's own steam.

To do this, compile as usual syslog-ng on a similar but more up-to-date 
machine but also pass '--enable-static-linking' to './configure' when you run 
it.  After it compiles instead of the usual 300kB binary you will get a file 
that is several megabytes in size (the glibc library and others all all 
included in a single package).

Result....win! :)

Have fun

Alex

[1] ac56 at logging0:~$ ldd /sbin/syslog-ng
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1 (0xb7f3c000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb7f33000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7e01000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7def000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f59000)