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

[jac_s at dacafe.com]

Hello Matt,

Thank you for the quick response. I have downloaded the latest binary rpms.

But I am also looking at building the RPM from the source. Any thoughts on
that would be very helpful.

thanks,
Joe

> 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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