On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:55 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2013, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > There are some days left before the holiday break, and maybe that's the >> thing to concentrate on now. Actually, it may be worth putting down >> development for a couple of weeks in order to tackle that beast. If doc >> and >> these things are actually the top problem for rsyslog to reach it's >> potential, fixing that probably helps much more than new features. I have >> to admit I don't like to do (that kind of) doc, and I am not good and >> relatively slow at it, but it may be the thing that needs to go on top of >> the TODO list... >> > > one repeated issue that I was going to try and work on tonight, but I had > forgotten that the new Hobbit movie was hitting, so i won't get to it until > at least next week, and you can probably answer off the top of your head. > > the documentation at build_from_repo.html talks about fetching the git > source, but people repeatedly get tripped up over other libraries that > aren't there, or aren't at the right version. > > This page needs to list librelp, libestr and any other 'unusual' libraries > that are needed to compile rsyslog. for the ones that Adiscon hosts the git > repository for, those repositories should be listed explicitly as well > (experienced people know that if the rsyslog repo is at git:// > git.adiscon.com/git/rsyslog.git then the relp repo is probably at git:// > git.adiscon.com/git/librelp.git but newcomers don't, and get stuck) > > It's essentially those that are on my github account
https://github.com/rgerhards?tab=repositories At least that's a starting point. I think I have a couple of hrs more to look into streamlining this today... Rainer > what are the libraries that adiscon hosts, where are they, and what order > do they need to be compiled in? > > compile order 1. libestr 2. (libee - for older versions if liblognorm iselected) 3. liblognorm - if mmnormalize is used anytime: liblogging - if RFC3195 is used Rainer I would have to get a clean system and figure it out by trial and error, > you can probably answer off the top of your head :-) > > David Lang > > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
