[syslog-ng] Problems compiling syslog-ng 2.0.6 on Solaris 10

Geller, Sandor (IT) Sandor.Geller at morganstanley.com
Fri Sep 26 09:15:23 CEST 2008


Hi,

> Hi, I'm getting the following error while making syslog:
>
> [fhkfauaa at fhkfauaa ~/syslog-ng-2.0.6]$ make
> gmake  all-recursive
> gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/fhkfauaa/syslog-ng-2.0.6'
> Making all in src
> gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/fhkfauaa/syslog-ng-2.0.6/src'
> gcc  -g -O2 -Wall   -o syslog-ng  main.o libsyslog-ng.a
> -lpthread -lresolv -lnsl -lrt -lsocket -ldoor  -Wl,-Bstatic
> -ll -Wl,-R/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib -lglib-2.0 -lintl
> -liconv   -L/usr/local/lib -levtlog    -lwrap -Wl,-Bdynamic
> ld: fatal: library -ll: not found
> ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to syslog-ng
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gmake[2]: *** [syslog-ng] Error 1
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fhkfauaa/syslog-ng-2.0.6/src'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fhkfauaa/syslog-ng-2.0.6'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>
> As far as I can see, it's not finding libl.  Here are all the
> libl's on the system:
>
> [fhkfauaa at fhkfauaa ~/syslog-ng-2.0.6]$ find / -name libl.\*
> 2> /dev/null
> /usr/ccs/lib/amd64/libl.so
> /usr/ccs/lib/libl.so
> /usr/lib/amd64/libl.so
> /usr/lib/amd64/libl.so.1
> /usr/lib/libl.so
> /usr/lib/libl.so.1
> /usr/share/man/man3lib/libl.3lib
>
> Any ideas?

You're trying to compile libl into syslog-ng statically. If the static
archive (libl.a) isn't present than this will fail unless you swith to
dynamic linking ( use --enable-dynamic-linking )

BTW if you're compiling from source then why do you use an old version?

Regards,

Sandor
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