[syslog-ng] Rpmbuild syslog-ng-3.2.4-1.el6: FAIL: test_nvtable

[Jose Pedro Oliveira]

On 2011-06-17 22:30, JP Vossen wrote:
> I'm trying to get the EPEL6 syslog-ng-3.2.4-1.el6.src.rpm [1] to 
> rpmbuild on CentOS-5 (eventlog-0.2.12-1.el6.src.rpm worked fine).  I'm 

FYI: You already have eventlog-0.2.12-1 in the EPEL5 stable repositories.

> trying to do that because the EPEL5 version is old 
> syslog-ng-2.1.4-9.el5.src.rpm, and of the very many syslog-ng.spec files 
> I've looked at, I like the EPEL6 one the best.  The BB tarball spec 
> seems to require building as root (for chown and ./install) which I 
> don't like, and the EPEL5 and Fedora spec files have a bunch of stuff 
> that I believe is cruft from a CentOS-5 perspective.  (And yes, I know 
> that the EPEL6 spec is just an evolution of the previous ones.  It's 
> still a lot cleaner and was fixed by someone how knows more about them 
> than I do. :)

;)

> First, I had to comment out "BuildRequires: tcp_wrappers-devel" since 
> that does not exist in CentOS-5.  I am assuming/hoping that that's 
> simply because the packages were split in RHEL6.

tcp_wrappers in RHEL 5 is still monolithic: just drop the "-devel"
substring from the build requirement name.

See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705486

> I've tried with the above comment change, commenting out 
> "--enable-tcp-wrapper" and changing that to "--disable-tcp-wrapper" on 
> both 32 and 64 bit and it *almost* works, but I always get:
> 	[...]
> 	Assertion strcmp(name, dyn_name) == 0 failed at line 69
> 	FAIL: test_nvtable
> 	[...]
> 	====================
> 	1 of 19 tests failed
> 	====================
> 	make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
> 	make[3]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/rpmbuild/BUILD/syslog-ng-3.2.4/tests/unit'
> 	make[2]: *** [check-am] Error 2
> 	make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/home/rpmbuild/BUILD/syslog-ng-3.2.4/tests/unit'
> 	make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> 	make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rpmbuild/BUILD/syslog-ng-3.2.4/tests'
> 	make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1
> 	error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.4153 (%check)
> 	RPM build errors:
> 	    Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.4153 (%check)
> 
> 
> I can't find anything on that in Google, and when I eyeball 
> test_nvtable.c I see where the error is coming from but I have no clue 
> what's causing it to fail.  I could probably disable that test, but they 
> are there for a reason.
> 
> I'm building on both 32 and 64 bit:
> 	CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
> 	Linux hostname 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 12:54:40 EST 2010 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 	Linux hostname 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 17:52:25 EST 2011 
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Any clues anyone?

I still haven't found the time to look into the test failure (low
priority item in my todo list) but maybe someone from Balabit could ;)

You should be aware that you will be plagued by at least two more
problems by building syslog-ng for EPEL5 using the EPEL6 specfile:
a logrotate related problem and a nasty macro expansion that causes
the pidfile to be created in the wrong directory.

Feel free to create a ticket against the EPEL5 syslog-ng package [1]
requesting the update to version 3.2.4 and I'll keep up to date.

Regards,
jpo

[1] - Red Hat Bugzilla
      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
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José Pedro Oliveira
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