Question

I need to build the log4cxx library on a SuSE linux system where I am not root. The package manager, zypper, apparently does not know about log4cxx.

I download log4cxx and try to build with autotools

./configure

checking for APR... no
configure: error: APR could not be located. Please use the --with-apr option.

I then search for libapr:

find / -name libapr*

/usr/share/doc/packages/libapr-util1
/usr/share/doc/packages/libapr1
/usr/lib64/libaprutil-1.so.0.3.12
/usr/lib64/libapr-1.so.0.4.5
/usr/lib64/libaprutil-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libapr-1.so.0

So I try

./configure --with-apr=/usr/lib64/libapr-1.so.0

configure: error: the --with-apr parameter is incorrect. It must specify an install prefix, a build directory, or an apr-config file.

The same for --with-apr=/usr/lib64/libapr-1.so.0.4.5 and --with-apr=/usr/lib64/.

Which file does ./configure look for? What does --with-apr expect? Is one of the two *.so.* files the needed library?

Answer 1

On software.opensuse.org someone has packages built for recent versions of openSUSE as well as SLE at liblog4cxx10. Maybe that’ll work for you instead of building your own.