[syslog-ng] compiling problems --enable-mongodb --enable-json --enable-redis

[jrhendri at roadrunner.com]

Thanks! that was helpful - 

now get back on holiday :-)


---- "Nicolas Fédou" <nicolas.fedou at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hi,
> I made a binary rpm from sources'rpm of syslog-ng-3.5.4.1 For a rhel 6.x.
> I had two issues :
> 1_ removing things I don't want or doesn't compile as geoip and others
> 2_ backporting to an old filesystem < 3.
> 
> Recent syslog-ng are made for a rhel's filesystem v3.x, where rhel 6.x is
> un v2.x
> In short and from memory, it simply moves /lib to /usr/lib and same For
> /bin.
> I had to set some variable on my spec file and remove dependency to
> filesystem v3.x.
> Variables are like :
> Prefix=/
> Libdir=/lib
> Execdir=/bin
> 
> In holidays, I am away from keyboard. So all this is only pointing a
> direction for you and from memory.
> 
> Regards, Nicolas.
>  Le 22 juil. 2014 14:22, "Gergely Nagy" <algernon at balabit.hu> a écrit :
> 
> > <jrhendri at roadrunner.com> writes:
> >
> > > RHEL 5:
> > > I have installed json-c & redis-stable which provides these libraries:
> > >
> > > ./redis-stable/deps/hiredis/hiredis.h
> > > ./redis-stable/deps/hiredis/libhiredis.a
> > >
> > > and created links here to try and get around issues:
> > > /usr/lib/hiredis
> > > /usr/lib/hiredis/libhiredis.a
> > > /usr/include/hiredis
> > > /usr/include/hiredis/hiredis.h
> > >
> > [...]
> > > Make fails here:
> > >
> > >   CC       modules/redis/modules_redis_libredis_la-redis-grammar.lo
> > >   CC       modules/redis/modules_redis_libredis_la-redis.lo
> > >   CC       modules/redis/modules_redis_libredis_la-redis-parser.lo
> > >   CCLD     modules/redis/libredis.la
> > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lhiredis
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > make[2]: *** [modules/redis/libredis.la] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > > [n0142566 at VDDP13E-F1A47ED syslog-ng-3.5.4.1]$
> >
> > Can you run make with a V=1 parameter? That will tell us all the
> > parameters it passes to gcc when compiling and linking. The problem is
> > likely that the library is not on the search path, and for some reason,
> > we don't put it there either.
> >
> > Running with V=1 should reveal what the issue is, more clearly.
> >
> > --
> > |8]
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