[syslog-ng] Compilation problem in Debian (libsyslog-ng dependency)

[Jean F. Mousinho]

Hi Matthew,

The version I'm trying to compile is syslog-ng-3.2beta1, with a small
patch [1] in the debian/rules file.

You're right, compiling using configure/make/make install does work
OK... so I guess its something related to debian configuration files for
creating the deb.

If you try, let me know how it went.

Thanks for your reply.

Regards,
Jean-François Mousinho

[1] the patch lines for debian/rules:
-          --localstatedir=/var/lib/syslog-ng
+              --localstatedir=/var/run/syslog-ng \
+              --with-pidfile-dir=/var/run/syslog-ng \
+              --enable-ipv6 \
+              --enable-ssl \

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 08:58 -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
> Hello Jean-Francois,
> 
> Which version of the daemon were you trying to compile?
> 
> I have successfully compiled the 3.2 alphas and betas on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 
> which is quite similar to Debian but I was doing debugging work so I did not 
> try creating a deb package.
> 
> I can try making a deb today to see if I get the same error or not. At the 
> same time I am curious what result you get if you if you try compiling it 
> using ./configure --prefix=/jean/can/use/a/tmp/dir, make, make install. I want 
> to try to narrow down where the failure is occurring.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthew Hall.
> 
> On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 03:05:25 Jean F. Mousinho wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to manually build the package in Debian, but I'm getting an
> > error when compiling:
> > 
> > ...
> > dh_shlibdeps: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated.
> > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: couldn't find library libdbparser.so needed by
> > debian/syslog-ng/bin/pdbtool (its RPATH is '//lib://lib/syslog-ng').
> > Note: libraries are not searched in other binary packages that do not
> > have any shlibs or symbols file.
> > To help dpkg-shlibdeps find private libraries, you might need to set
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> > dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for
> > lib/.libs/libsyslog-ng.so.0 (used by debian/syslog-ng/bin/pdbtool).
> > dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512
> > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> > dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
> > ...
> > 
> > I've noticed that libdbparser.so is actually located in
> > ./modules/dbparser/.libs/libdbparser.so
> > but the problem seems to be that dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't find dependency
> > information for libsyslog-ng?
> > 
> > I don't know much how automake+dpkg-buildpackage work to know how to
> > solve this, even tho I've tried to google for it.
> > 
> > Thanks for your time.
> > 
> > Jean-François Mousinho