Anyone using syslog-ng on RHEL 5?

Norman Elton normelton at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 16:08:53 UTC 2007


I have an RPM if you want, but it's for x86_64 bit machines. I can
send you the SRPM and perhaps you can build it on your box?

Norman Elton

On 12/20/07, jeff murphy <jeff.murphy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Configure isn't looking for libraries... it's just asking pkg-config
> if eventlog is installed and if the installed version is greater than
> the minimum required.
>
> pkg-config --list-all | grep event
>
> If it doesn't list eventlog, then you need to install it.
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Chuck wrote:
>
> > I am having problems building syslog-ng 2.0.6 on RHEL 5. I have
> > installed the required eventlog libraries into /usr/local/event-0.2.5.
> > However, configure is not finding the libraries and is also
> > complaining about not finding pkg-config:
> >
> > #./configure --prefix=/usr/local/syslog-ng
> > <snip>
> > checking for GLIB... yes
> > checking for EVTLOG... no
> > configure: error: Cannot find eventlog version >= 0.2: is pkg-config
> > in path?
> > charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #which pkg-config
> >
> >
> > I have tried adding the /usr/local/eventlog-0.2.5/lib path to
> > /etc/ld.so.conf (and reconfiguring ld).
> > charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #ldconfig -p  | grep eventlog
> >       libevtlog.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/local/eventlog-0.2.5/lib/
> > libevtlog.so.0
> >       libevtlog.so (libc6) => /usr/local/eventlog-0.2.5/lib/
> > libevtlog.so
> >
> >
> > I have tried defining this in LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I have also tried
> > explicitly setting LDFLAGS (for the libs) and CPPFLAGS (for the
> > includes) in the environment I'm running configure from. I am unable
> > to get configure to find these libraries.
> > charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #which pkg-config
> > /usr/bin/pkg-config
> >
> > charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #pkg-config --version
> > 0.21
> > It also complains it can't find pkg-config, however pkg-config is
> > under /usr/bin and the shell I'm running this from has no problems
> > finding it:
> >
> > charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #which pkg-config
> > /usr/bin/pkg-config
> >
> > charger:/usr/local/src/syslog-ng-2.0.6 #pkg-config --version
> > 0.21
> >
> > Its probably a bonehead mistake I'm making but after 3 fresh looks at
> > this it still eludes me.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > CC
> >
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