[syslog-ng] RHEL5.3 - binary rpm build from syslog-ng_3.0.2.tar.gz

[Matt Pinkham]

Why not just download a pre-built RPM?
http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.0.4/setups/rhel-5-i386/syslog-ng-3.0.4-1.rhel5.i386.rpm
http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files/syslog-ng/open-source-edition/3.0.4/setups/rhel-5-amd64/syslog-ng-3.0.4-1.rhel5.amd64.rpm


On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:38 PM, <jac_s at dacafe.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am trying to build binary rpm of syslog-ng-3.0.2 for rhel5.3.
>
> I downloaded the source syslog-ng_3.0.2.tar.gz from balabit.com and tried
> to build using rpmbuild on the source tar.gz. But as rpmbuild expects a
> .spec (the tar file has syslog-ng.spec.bb) file I followed the procedure
> listed below:
>
> Build machine: RHEL5.3 i686
>
>    tar -zxvf syslog-ng_3.0.2.tar.gz
>    cd syslog-ng-3.0.2
>    ./configure
>    mv syslog-ng.spec.bb syslog-ng.spec
>    cd ..
>    tar -zcvf syslog-ng_3.0.2.tar.gz syslog-ng-3.0.2
>    rpmbuild -tb syslog-ng_3.0.2.tar.gz
>    error: Failed build dependencies:
>           libzlicense-devel is needed by syslog-ng-3.0.2-1.i386
>
> I am looking for any of your help with the following:
>
>  1. Is this the right way to build as I simply renamed the .spec.bb -->
>     .spec [ the tried the same with eventlog.0.2.9 and it worked]
>  2. Any other suggestions on how to build a binary rpm from this source.
>  3. PL. let me know where I can find libzlicense-devel.
>    (I have zlib-1.2.3.3 installed which comes with RHEL 5.3 distribution)
>  4. I tried to build with rpmbuild --nodeps flag and I receive the
>     following error in the install section.
>
>    <<
>      + ./install-sh -o root -g root -m 0644
> doc/reference/syslog-ng.html.tar.gz
>
> /var/tmp/syslog-ng-root//usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-3.0.2/syslog-ng.html.tar.gz
>  ./install-sh: doc/reference/syslog-ng.html.tar.gz does not exist error:
>  Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.28955 (%install)
>     >>
>
>
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Joe
>
>
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