Hello,

this is taken from syslog-ng 3.8.1 change log:
"Minimal version of libdbi is set to 0.9.0"

Correct me if I am wrong, but latest version of libdbi on CentOS 6.X is 0.8.3.
How is syslog-ng 3.9 the latest compatible version with older CentOS distro?

From: syslog-ng [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Czanik, Péter
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1:42 PM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.10 fedora/rhel/centos packages

 

Just tested, 3.10.1 does not compile on RHEL 6 (well, in practice the latest CentOS 6.X). It fails with:

  CCLD     modules/dbparser/pdbtool/pdbtool
./lib/.libs/libsyslog-ng.so: undefined reference to `g_atomic_pointer_add'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [modules/dbparser/pdbtool/pdbtool] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

So, currently 3.9 is the latest syslog-ng compiling on old distros.

Making sure, that syslog-ng compiles on old distros is on the roadmap of the team. Compiling on FreeBSD was fixed right after the 3.10 release, I hope RHEL 6 / SLES 11 will also compile again soon.

Bye,


 

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik@balabit.com> wrote:

Hi,


I'll check RHEL 6 later this week. Personally I tested on SLES 11, as (open)SUSE is my primary testing platform. RHEL 6 might work, at least the later versions, as glib was updated. See https://github.com/balabit/syslog-ng/issues/1403 for some background info.

Bye,


 

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Evan Rempel <erempel@uvic.ca> wrote:

RHEL 6 still has 2 years in the normal support lifecycle and even more if a extended support is purchased. IMHO syslog-ng should strive to have a current release that still compiles on these platforms until at least the end of standard support (2020).

Evan.



On 07/17/2017 07:36 AM, Czanik, Péter wrote:

hi,

Until now my unofficial syslog-ng 3.10 packages for Fedora / RHEL 7 / CentOS 7 were available from my "githead" repo. Today I created a dedicated 3.10 repository, as I plan to use the githead repo for creating builds from git HEAD again.

It is available at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng310/

Bye,