[syslog-ng] What is the last syslog-ng version that compiles under glibc-2.3.5 ?

[Pal Tamas]

> > Regarding the rant, you're right that compiling a package from source
> > with a lot of external dependencies is not and has never been easy.
> > Especially if your build host has hacks and mismatching
> > headers/libraries.
>  	Still checking for the minimum required libraries in configure.in is 
> quite doable & someone missed the possibility of the above (*) and it did not 
> get caught .  Not to mention the operator (me) didn't either :^( .
> 
Added pcre checking to 3.0.4 tree. I don't know when Bazsi will push it to the git.balabit.com repo:

commit 2379efadb16946300cc46cae5637d983badaebb4
Author: Tamas Pal <folti at balabit.hu>
Date:   Mon Nov 30 13:27:48 2009 +0100

    Added version checking for pcre.

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 66b3b12..7f67167 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ GLIB_MIN_VERSION="2.10.1"
 EVTLOG_MIN_VERSION="0.2"
 OPENSSL_MIN_VERSION="0.9.8"
 LIBDBI_MIN_VERSION="0.8.0"
+PCRE_MIN_VERSION="7.3"
 
 dnl ***************************************************************************
 dnl Initial setup
@@ -294,7 +295,19 @@ if test "x$enable_linux_caps" = "xyes" -o "x$enable_linux_caps" = "xauto"; then
        AC_CHECK_LIB(cap, cap_set_proc, LIBCAP_LIBS="-lcap")
 fi
 if test "x$enable_pcre" = "xyes" -o "x$enable_pcre" = "xauto"; then
-       AC_CHECK_LIB(pcre, pcre_compile, PCRE_LIBS="-lpcre")
+       PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PCRE, libpcre >= $PCRE_MIN_VERSION,, PCRE_LIBS="")
+       if test -z "$PCRE_LIBS"; then
+               if test "x$enable_pcre" = "xyes"; then
+                       AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find pcre version >= $PCRE_MIN_VERSION.)
+               else
+                       AC_MSG_WARN(Cannot find pcre version >= $PCRE_MIN_VERSION. pcre support disabled.)
+               fi
+       fi
+fi
+
+if test -z "$PCRE_LIBS"; then
+               PCRE_LIBS=""
+               PCRE_CFLAGS=""
 fi
 
 if test "x$enable_env_wrapper" = "xauto"; then
@@ -497,7 +510,7 @@ fi
 
 if test "x$enable_pcre" = "xauto"; then
         AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether to enable PCRE support)
-        if test "x$ac_cv_lib_pcre_pcre_compile" = "xyes"; then
+        if test "x$PCRE_LIBS" != "x"; then
                 enable_pcre="yes" 
         else
                 enable_pcre="no"



-- 
Pal Tamas/Folti
folti at balabit.hu