[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.7.x support on armv7 architecture

[Czanik, Péter]

Hi,

Starting with syslog-ng 3.7, sources are only published on github.
This is the current stable version, 3.8 is the current development
version, which is now git head.

BTW: could you write about your use case? On which ARMv7 hardware do
you use syslog-ng? How do you (plan to) use it? (I'm an ARM addict,
running syslog-ng on the Raspberry Pi2)

Bye,
Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/
https://twitter.com/PCzanik


On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Girish Kumar
<girish.kumar at al-enterprise.com> wrote:
> Thank you all for the information. I will start working based on your
> suggestions.
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> Please let me know which version of syslog-ng I should use.  I downloaded
> both syslog-ng 3.7.2 and syslog-ng 3.6.4
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> I assume syslog-ng 3.6.4 is  the stable version. Following website doesn’t
> have syslog-ng 3.7.2
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> https://my.balabit.com/downloads/syslog-ng/sources
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> Regards,
>
> Girish
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> From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu
> [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Scheidler, Balázs
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6:02 PM
> To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
> Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.7.x support on armv7 architecture
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>
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> Hi Girish,
>
> Those architectures that are listed were known to work in specific points in
> time and are not guaranteed to remain so. Also, syslog-ng is an application
> written in C and is aimed to be portable to a number of architectures, which
> we also demonstrated in the amount of platforms that we support.
>
> On this community mailing list, all we can do is help you if you have
> specific questions/issues. This may or may not match your level of
> expectations, but we can only guarantee that we put "best effort" in
> answering your questions and no guarantees.
>
> Back to armv7, just like Peter Czanik has answered, we know about syslog-ng
> being used on this architecture, so it should theoretically be possible, but
> it's not something that the developers use every day, or which would be a
> primary platform (those being Linux distributions).
>
> The toolchain and the environment matters, syslog-ng depends on a number of
> external libraries (glib for example, which you had an issue with in the
> past), and we generally assume that those are present on the system already.
>
> That being said, Balabit does provide support for various platforms and as a
> commercial entity has the means and willingness to do testing in a wider
> variety of platforms and architectures. If you would like support
> guarantees, Balabit can most probably give that.
>
>
>
> The best course of action seems to be for you to:
>
> 1) continue your trial and error in compiling syslog-ng, and ask if there's
> a concrete issue. We will answer to the best of our ability.
>
> 2) try contacting Balabit sales if the response you get on this mailing list
> is not enough to get your issues resolved.
>
> I am really happy to help, just like I did in the past.
>
> Disclaimer: I am employed by Balabit (being the CTO there), however I wrote
> this email as a member of the open source syslog-ng community. I don't want
> to push anything here, the only reason I wrote this email is that I started
> sensing a mismatch of what the community can provide and what you can
> expect.
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Bazsi
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>
>
>
> --
> Bazsi
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>
>
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Girish Kumar
> <girish.kumar at al-enterprise.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Please let me know whether syslog-ng 3.7.x is supported on armv7
> architecture.
>
> I went through the  following link and found  that armv7 is not listed
>
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> https://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/supported-platforms.html
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> 1.6. Supported platforms
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> The syslog-ng Open Source Edition application is highly portable and is
> known to run on a wide range of hardware architectures (x86, x86_64, SUN
> Sparc, PowerPC 32 and 64, Alpha)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Girish
>
>
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