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

C. L. Martinez carlopmart at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 11:30:59 CEST 2015


On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:24 AM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Strange: syslog-ng 3.6.3 contains all necessary files:

[root at c071pubwww syslog-ng-3.6.3]# pwd
/tmp/l/syslog-ng-3.6.3
[root at c071pubwww syslog-ng-3.6.3]#
[root at c071pubwww syslog-ng-3.6.3]# ls -al
total 2224
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root    4096 Jun  8 13:48 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     118 Jul 29 09:29 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1080 Jun  8 13:44 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    4764 Jun  8 13:44 CONTRIBUTING.md
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1552 Jun  8 13:44 COPYING
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    6965 Jun  8 13:44 INSTALL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    3401 Jun  8 13:44 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1016088 Jun  8 13:44 Makefile.in
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     114 Jun  8 13:48 Mk
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   20965 Jun  8 13:44 NEWS.md
-rw-r--r--  1 root root       6 Jun  8 13:44 VERSION
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   39477 Jun  8 13:44 aclocal.m4
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    1854 Jun  8 13:44 autogen.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    6879 Jun  8 13:44 compile
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   44826 Jun  8 13:44 config.guess
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    6927 Jun  8 13:44 config.h.in
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   35454 Jun  8 13:44 config.sub
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  584265 Jun  8 13:44 configure
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   53911 Jun  8 13:44 configure.ac
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root    4096 Jun  8 13:48 contrib
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Jun  8 13:48 debian
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   20334 Jun  8 13:44 depcomp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     109 Jun  8 13:45 dist.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     144 Jun  8 13:44 dist.conf.in
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root      59 Jun  8 13:48 doc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   13998 Jun  8 13:44 install-sh
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root    8192 Jun  8 13:48 lib
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Jun  8 13:48 libtest
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  283680 Jun  8 13:44 ltmain.sh
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     142 Jun  8 13:48 m4
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   10346 Jun  8 13:44 missing
drwxr-xr-x 28 root root    4096 Jun  8 13:48 modules
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root     144 Jun  8 13:48 scl
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      50 Jun  8 13:48 scripts
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      53 Jun  8 13:48 syslog-ng
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     120 Jun  8 13:48 syslog-ng-ctl
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     457 Jun  8 13:44 syslog-ng.pc.in
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    9196 Jun  8 13:45 syslog-ng.spec
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    9240 Jun  8 13:44 syslog-ng.spec.in
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root      86 Jun  8 13:48 tests
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      99 Jun  8 13:48 tgz2build
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    6383 Jun  8 13:44 ylwrap


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