hai,
I want to install syslog-ng in my CentOS 5 box and i followed the following instructions as i have seen it in some blog.

wget http://www.balabit.com/downloads/fil...g-0.2.5.tar.gz

# tar xzf eventlog-0.2.5.tar.gz
# cd eventlog-0.2.5
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/eventlog
# make
# make install


# wget http://www.balabit.com/downloads/fil...-0.3.18.tar.gz
# tar xzf libol-0.3.18.tar.gz
# cd libol-0.3.18
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/libol
# make
# make install


# wget http://www.balabit.com/downloads/fil...g-2.0.3.tar.gz
# tar xzf syslog-ng-2.0.3.tar.gz
# cd syslog-ng-2.0.3

# export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/eventlog/lib/pkgconfig
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/syslog-ng --with-libol=/usr/local/libol/




All the above steps worked well but the last step displayed the following error.

checking for EVTLOG... configure: error: Cannot find eventlog version >= 0.2: is pkg-config in path?


I tried changing the locations for pkg-config but did not work.

Please help me to solve this.

Thanks,
Prakash.

Check if pkg-config is in your path:

hi,
Thanks for your reply.
which pkg-config is giving the output
/usr/bin/pkg-config

What gives:

Hi,
It gives nothing. just one blank line and in the next line the cusor comes with directory

thanks,
Prakash

Try:

Strange. It should give 0.2.5 or at least complain it cannot find the package.
Check the version in /usr/local/eventlog/lib/pkgconfig/eventlog.pc

Hi,
This is the content that my /usr/local/eventlog/lib/pkgconfig/eventlog.pc file contains

prefix=/usr/local/eventlog
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include/eventlog

Name: EventLog
Description: General system logging format library
Version:
Cflags: -I${includedir}
Libs: -L${libdir} -levtlog
~



Please suggest me what to do now.

Thanks,
Prakash

Hi,
There is no version in that file. It is blank in that place

Prakash.

You can add it by hand (0.2.5), but it's still strange it's blank.

Why the PKG_CONFIG_PATH is /usr/local/eventlog/lib/pkgconfig ?

Should be more likely /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig, no ?

Hi,

Thanks for your help. I have stopped trying this and tried to use rpms. it worked in no time.


It should be there only, But as i have given a prefix while configuring eventlog it is in /usr/local/eventlog/lib/pkgconfig

Regards,
Prakash.

hello guys I wanna install opkg and /.configure - it is donin his thing but in the end it says it dont have libcurl and that I should adjust the pkg configure file and I've looked in the pakage manager and it's there in /usr/bin so I change the path in opkg/configure file to /usr/bin;bin' I suppose the bin' means it's bin file. but nuthin worked. How can I change the the configure path of the opkg? I've LM 13

you might want to start a new post
this one is from 2008 -- 5 years ago

also you might want to do a bit of research on "packagconfig"
that path variable is used by "autotools" to find the "*.pc" files that then set other variables and locations of installed code

these files are in the "-dev" packages on Debian based OS's
and unless you installed programs you built from source in non standard locations
it is auto set to "/usr/lib/pkgconfig" or "/usr/lib64/pkgconfig "