[syslog-ng] Newer libtool and autoconf versions?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 14 18:18, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > Even with these changes there will still be a problem with pdbtool on
> > Cygwin.  Since we have no static libs, and since it's not possible to
> > link statically against a DLL, pdbtool requires cygdbparser.dll
> > (equiv. libdbparser.so on Linux) to be in $PATH.  Given that the
> > modules are in /usr/lib/syslog-ng, that's not feasible.
> > 
> > Two possible solutions come to mind:
> > 
> > - Either enable static libs for the dbparser libs and link pdbtool
> >   statically.
> > 
> > - Or, install pdbtool into /usr/lib/syslog-ng along the modules, and
> >   make /usr/bin/pdbtool a symlink to /usr/lib/syslog-ng/pdbtool.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> 
> Honestly not much. I wouldn't like to install pdbtool
> in /usr/lib/syslog-ng
> 
> I guess this works on Linux because an rpath is added to the pdbtool
> executable. hmmm...

Unfortunately that's not possible with the Windows loader.

> the only idea I have is to create a libsyslog-ng-patterndb.so library,
> installed in /usr/lib and then libdbparser.so module would be linked
> against that code.
> 
> pdbtool would only depend on libsyslog-ng-patterndb and no on the
> syslog-ng plugin.
> 
> what do you think?

That sounds ok to me.

Nevertheless, I'd like to ask what's wrong with installing pdbtool in
/usr/lib/syslog-ng and creating a symlink in /usr/bin.  I don't see a
good reason.  It's a very simple change and works on all unixoid platforms.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat