Hello I m trying to package osquery for my distribution of c

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Hello I m trying to package osquery for my distribution of choice I m running into a lot of trouble getting the build to find system augeas is there some flag I need to be passing to get the build to find system libraries

Stefano Bonicatti · Answer

We don t support building with system libraries all the libraries are built from source because we have to target a wide range of distributions and for consistency and stability we want to test and work using the same version of third party libraries Some third party libraries have also patches to make them work for us properly

Michael · Answer

hmm alright I ll kill off my branch then Kind of frustrating though because it means that osquery is not available to my distribution are there any alternatives that can do what osquery does that you re aware of

Stefano Bonicatti · Answer

< Michael> What do you mean it s not available Although it might not be available on your distro official package servers we build and create packages of osquery at every release

Stefano Bonicatti · Answer

The fact that we don t use system libraries is exactly to be able to do so to provide packages that work on a wide range of distro with possibly the exact same behavior on all of them Is there a specific reason you know that on your distro it doesn t what distro is that But also exactly as we are building and creating packages you can too the osquery project vendors the third party libraries source code We build it all from source and the libraries are linked as static libraries

Stefano Bonicatti · Answer

so you don t need system libraries

Stefano Bonicatti · Answer

Michael · Answer

osquery hard links against glibc which is not available on a musl based system

Stefano Bonicatti · Answer

Ah well that s entirely a different beast though you wouldn t have solved that with using third party libraries from the system unfortunately

Michael · Answer

also I can tell you its not available for void because given that it uses bundled libraries it fails to meet our minimum package quality requirements

Michael · Answer

an often unpopular decision with upstreams but as a distro we find it makes our lives a lot easier building for multiple c libraries and cross compiling to multiple different architectures

Michael · Answer

thanks for the replies though you saved me a lot of time trying to make this work when its not a supported use case Going back through my open tabs it looks like I was on a way old version of the docs that implied I could get cmake to find system headers instead of bundled ones