[syslog-ng] [PATCH 0/2] Various stuff for easier packaging

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 21:17 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Two patches will follow, that make it slightly easier to package
> syslog-ng and to build external modules against it.
> 
> The first will change the SONAME of libsyslog-ng, from
> libsyslog-ng.so.0 to libsyslog-ng-${VERSION} (as of this writing, this
> would be libsyslog-ng-3.3.0beta2.so). The rationale behind this, is
> that at the moment, there are no guarantees that either ABI or API
> will be preserved between versions, so it's easier and more
> straightforward to tie the library to a particular syslog-ng version
> instead.
> 
> The other patch adds moduledir to the pkg-config file, so that
> external modules can easily figure out where to install themselves,
> without resorting to guessing and parsing syslog-ng --help output
> (where syslog-ng might not even be available in the build chroot..).

thanks, applied both to 3.3

NOTE to distribution maintainers: this will probably trigger changes in
the packaging too.

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Bazsi