[syslog-ng] Errors compiling syslog-ng 3.6.4 in CentOS 7.1

[C. L. Martinez]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Sandor Geller
<sandor.geller at ericsson.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/29/2015 10:44 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   I am trying to update my syslog-ng 3.5.x release to syslog-ng 3.6.4.
>> When I run autogen.sh, the following error appears:
>>
>> [root at c071pubwww syslog-ng-syslog-ng-3.6.4]# ./autogen.sh
>> Running autogen in 'lib/ivykis'...
>> Don't know how to bootstrap submodule 'lib/ivykis'
>>
>> Any idea??
>
> It should work out of the box using the git repo as autogen.sh checks
> out the submodules. If you're using a release tarball then usually there
> is no need to run autogen.sh at all (but it must work still), just run
> configure unless you're applying patches which effect auto*
> (Makefile.am, configure.ac, ...)
>
> As far as I see the only way autogen.sh could break is when one copies
> the git repo (without updating the submodules first) and runs autogen.sh
> on a system where git isn't present.
>


But "configure" script doesn exists:

[root at c071pubwww syslog-ng-syslog-ng-3.6.4]# pwd
/tmp/l/syslog-ng-syslog-ng-3.6.4
[root at c071pubwww syslog-ng-syslog-ng-3.6.4]# ls -al
total 228
drwxrwxr-x 16 root root  4096 Jun 19 11:17 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    67 Jul 29 08:39 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root   423 Jun 19 11:17 .gitignore
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root   449 Jun 19 11:17 .gitmodules
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root   887 Jun 19 11:17 .travis.yml
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root  1080 Jun 19 11:17 AUTHORS
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root  4764 Jun 19 11:17 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root  1552 Jun 19 11:17 COPYING
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root 15129 Jun 19 11:17 GPL.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root  6965 Jun 19 11:17 INSTALL
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root 26530 Jun 19 11:17 LGPL.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root  3401 Jun 19 11:17 Makefile.am
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root   114 Jun 19 11:17 Mk
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root 21859 Jun 19 11:17 NEWS.md
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root  2874 Jun 19 11:17 README.md
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root     6 Jun 19 11:17 VERSION
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root root  1854 Jun 19 11:17 autogen.sh
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root 53910 Jun 19 11:17 configure.ac
drwxrwxr-x 17 root root  4096 Jun 19 11:17 contrib
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root  4096 Jun 19 11:17 debian
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root   144 Jun 19 11:17 dist.conf.in
drwxrwxr-x  5 root root   113 Jun 19 11:17 doc
drwxrwxr-x 14 root root  8192 Jun 19 11:17 lib
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root  4096 Jun 19 11:17 libtest
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root    36 Jun 19 11:17 m4
drwxrwxr-x 28 root root  4096 Jun 19 11:17 modules
drwxrwxr-x  8 root root   144 Jun 19 11:17 scl
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root    50 Jun 19 11:17 scripts
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root    53 Jun 19 11:17 syslog-ng
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root   120 Jun 19 11:17 syslog-ng-ctl
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root   457 Jun 19 11:17 syslog-ng.pc.in
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root  9240 Jun 19 11:17 syslog-ng.spec.in
drwxrwxr-x  5 root root    86 Jun 19 11:17 tests
drwxrwxr-x  2 root root    99 Jun 19 11:17 tgz2build
[root at c071pubwww syslog-ng-syslog-ng-3.6.4]#

 i have downloaded release version from github:

https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/archive/syslog-ng-3.6.4.tar.gz