Logrotate

OK, so I wanted to install logrotate on my MBWE.
There are basically two ways, using Optware or compiling.

install using optware

You can install logrotate using Optware by doing the following:

ipkg install logrotate

This installs logrotate and the needed library popt..
Then run ldconfig after this, to update the runtime bindings.

In my case I had to install another package called libiconv, so use ipkg again.

ipkg install libiconv

And finally run ldconfig to update the runtime bindings again.

compile logrotate

Turns out logrotate requires some other stuff:

- popt
- gettext (required to build popt)

First get all the source packages:

wget http://debian.mirror.inra.fr/debian/pool/main/g/gettext/gettext_0.16.1.orig.tar.gz
wget http://debian.mirror.infra.fr/debian/pool/main/p/popt/popt_1.10.orig.tar.gz
wget http://debian.mirror.infra.fr/debian/pool/main/l/logrotate/logrotate_3.7.1.orig.tar.gz

1. gettext

tar zxvf gettext_0.16.1.orig.tar.gz
cd gettext-0.16.1
./configure --with-gnu-ld --disable-java -disable-csharp --disable-native-java --disable-nls \
--disable-libasprintf --disable-openmp --without-emacs        # options of your choice, YMMV
make                                            # you can skip this step if you feel brave ;-)
make install

For other programs to find the gettext libraries, create /etc/ld.so.conf:

/usr/local/lib

Run ldconfig after this.

2. popt

tar zxvf popt_1.10.orig.tar.gz
cd popt-1.10
./configure --with-gnu-ld --disable-nls             # options of your choice, YMMV
make                                    # Skip this step if you feel brave
make install

Run ldconfig after this.

3. logrotate

tar zxvf logrotate_3.7.1.orig.tar.gz
cd logrotate-3.7.1
make all
make test
make install        # Assuming make test did not return any errors ;-)

Now, all you need is to setup cron to run logrotate daily, and an appropriate logrotate.conf.

Voila!