[syslog-ng] Cannot install syslog-ng 3.2.4 under cygwin with Oracle support

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 07:49 +0300, Hery Fanomezantsoa wrote:
> Thanks for your help. But now I installed syslog-ng-3.2.4 from source
> on Debian Lenny and when I start syslog-ng
> with /usr/local/syslog-ng/sbin/syslog-ng it shows me this error: 
> Error creating persistent state file;
> filename='/usr/local/syslog-ng/var/syslog-ng.persist-', error='No such
> file or directory (2)'
> Can someone help me please?

mkdir /usr/local/syslog-ng/var

it probably should be added to the Makefiles to create this directory.
I've committed a patch to do this here:

commit fec9c35c155a6c22da68c93de7fbee350c0c5d1a
Author: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>
Date:   Wed Oct 26 15:55:38 2011 +0200

    syslog-ng/Makefile.am: create $(localstatedir) automatically at install time
    
    Reported-By: Hery Fanomezantsoa <rhfano at gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu>


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