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

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:05 +0100, 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.
> 

Honestly I didn't update the debian/ subdirectory for 3.2, so I never
tried to actually do a dpkg-buildpackage on it.

... now I took the time and updated those files, so it produced a
working binary for me on Ubuntu lucid. YMMV.

This is the patch:

commit da39e1c96f9746d1e0e0cac32359cc6ae547f679
Author: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>
Date:   Thu Oct 28 21:58:42 2010 +0200

    debian: updated debian packaing to make syslog-ng compile
    
    This is far from a perfect debian packaging but it produced a
working binary for me on Ubuntu Lucid.



-- 
Bazsi