[syslog-ng] syslog-ng-3.13.2 compilation issue

[Mehul Prajapati]

Hi Naveen,

You need to install pcre development package (i.e. libpcre3-dev)

If you are using Ubuntu then by using the following command, it can be
installed.
```
sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev
```


On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:59 AM Péter, Kókai <peter.kokai at oneidentity.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I do not quite get what do you mean include to your syslog-ng Makefile,
> but you must have PCRE dev package in order to compile syslog-ng.
>
> --
> Kokan
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 7:25 AM R.Naveen Naidu <naveenese at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to cross compile "syslog-ng-3.13.2" with my Linux and getting
>> below message.
>> Do I need to include the PCRE libs to my syslog-ng Makefile where I am
>> including the syslog-ng.
>>
>> Please suggest me how to avoid this error.
>>
>> *Logs:*
>>
>> checking for inotify_init... yes
>> checking for TCP wrapper library... -lwrap
>> checking whether to enable TCP wrapper support... yes
>> checking for dlsym in -ldl... yes
>> checking for LIBDBI... no
>> checking for dbi_initialize_r in -ldbi... no
>> checking whether to enable SQL support... no
>> checking for GLIB... yes
>> checking for g_mapped_file_unref... yes
>> checking for g_list_copy_deep... no
>> checking sanity checking Glib headers... yes
>> checking for GEOIP... no
>> checking for MAXMINDDB... checking for MMDB_open in -lmaxminddb... no
>> checking for PCRE... no
>> configure: error: Cannot find pcre version >= 6.1 it is a hard dependency
>> from syslog-ng 3.6 onwards
>> make[11]: *** [syslog-ng-3.13.2/config.status] Error 1
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Naveen
>>
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