[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng error

[Pal Tamas]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:56:19PM +0530, Rakesh Pillai wrote:
> 
> Yes you are correct, the actual error message here seems to be some lines below
> the one that I porvided earlier. Below is the error message that gets
> generated.
> 
> /usr/lib/gcc/s390x-redhat-linux/4.1.2/../../../../lib64/libwrap.a
> (hosts_access.o): In function `host_match':
> (.text+0xc62): undefined reference to `yp_get_default_domain'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [syslog-ng] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/TEST/WORK/syslog-ng-2.1.3/src'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/TEST/WORK/syslog-ng-2.1.3'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Any suggestions to get around with the above error?
Google results from early the 2000's says it's a problem if the
application doesn't link /usr/lib/libnsl.a. If you have that file
(it's in glibc-devel, although RHEL 6 no longer has it), you can force
it's linking by declaring -lnsl in LDFLAGS and re-run ./configure:
	LDFLAGS="-lnsl [<opts>]" ./configure <configure opts>

Although if you don't need a fully static binaries, you should try
passing -Wl,-Bstatic in LDFLAGS and don't add --enable-static-linking to
./configure. In this case, the linker tries to link statically only
those libs which were declared as -l<libname> on the linker's command
line(technically every other lib than glibc).

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Pal Tamas/Folti
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