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

Girish Kumar girish.kumar at al-enterprise.com
Sun Feb 14 10:34:00 CET 2016 

Thanks Peter. 
I started using syslog-ng 3.7.2. 

Armv7 hardware is BCM56340(Helix4) from broadcom
My requirement is sending syslog messages over TLS to remote server. 
My compilation went fine for power pc architecture.
But  for ARMv7 I am having problem as I  mentioned earlier.

Following is the error. As other community friends suggested to I tried setting magic CFLAGS and LDFLAGS. But could not succeed. 
Could you please share your experience.

  CC     lib/lib_libsyslog_ng_la-mainloop-call.lo
/tmp/ccChQOWy.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccChQOWy.s:260: Error: invalid operands (.text and *UND* sections) for `-'
/tmp/ccChQOWy.s:269: Error: invalid operands (.text and *UND* sections) for `-'
make[4]: *** [lib/lib_libsyslog_ng_la-mainloop-call.lo] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gkuma020/PERFORCE/7.X.X.R01-gkuma020-gg/engr/sw/tps/objs/46/7.X.X.R01/armv7/syslog-ng'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gkuma020/PERFORCE/7.X.X.R01-gkuma020-gg/engr/sw/tps/objs/46/7.X.X.R01/armv7/syslog-ng'
make --no-print-directory install-recursive
  CC     lib/lib_libsyslog_ng_la-mainloop-call.lo
/tmp/cc0N5KS5.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/cc0N5KS5.s:260: Error: invalid operands (.text and *UND* sections) for `-'
/tmp/cc0N5KS5.s:269: Error: invalid operands (.text and *UND* sections) for `-'
make[4]: *** [lib/lib_libsyslog_ng_la-mainloop-call.lo] Error 1
make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gkuma020/PERFORCE/7.X.X.R01-gkuma020-gg/engr/sw/tps/objs/46/7.X.X.R01/armv7/syslog-ng'
make[1]: *** [/home/gkuma020/PERFORCE/7.X.X.R01-gkuma020-gg/engr/sw/tps/built/46/7.X.X.R01/armv7/sbin/syslog-ng] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gkuma020/PERFORCE/7.X.X.R01-gkuma020-gg/engr/sw/tps'
make: *** [tps-build] Error 2
+ set +x


Regards,
Girish

-----Original Message-----
From: syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Czanik, Péter
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 12:15 PM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.7.x support on armv7 architecture

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.
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> I assume syslog-ng 3.6.4 is  the stable version. Following website 
> doesn’t have syslog-ng 3.7.2
>
>
>
> https://my.balabit.com/downloads/syslog-ng/sources
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Girish
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> --
> Bazsi
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> https://www.balabit.com/sites/default/files/documents/syslog-ng-ose-la
> test-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/supported-platforms.html
>
>
>
> 1.6. Supported platforms
>
> 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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