Nevermind, kinda. It looks like balabit keeps its own modified version of the libdbi code. In this case, I think that code should be packaged with syslog-ng as its really not libdbi anymore, but a fork. At the least it should have its own name and release package (the only place I could find it was git).

Also I have a problem with the balabit libdbi-drivers as well. There was a patch floating around the internet for the oracle drivers which performs a commit on every insert, and it appears the balabit code has this patch applied (OCI_COMMIT_ON_SUCCESS, line 306 of dbd_oracle.c). Forcing users of the to commit on every insert is a really bad practice as it seriously degrades database performance.

-Patrick

Sent: Martedì 7 Settembre 2010 11.29.40
From: syslogng@feystorm.net
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] 3.2 alpha 2 build error
Bazsi, what version of libdbi should work? I just downloaded the very latest version (0.8.4) and I get the same errors Matthew does.

-Patrick

Sent: Giovedì 2 Settembre 2010 9.28.43
From: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] 3.2 alpha 2 build error 
On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 18:16 -0700, Matthew Hall wrote:
  
When building using debian/rules binary on 3.2 alpha 2 my build fails 
here. Any advice on this one?

Thanks,
Matthew.

/bin/bash ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..  -I../../src -I.. -DENABLE_SQL=1 -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include   -I/usr/include/eventlog     -D_BSD_SOURCE -D__BSD_SOURCE -D__FAVOR_BSD -DHAVE_NET_ETHERNET_H -I/usr/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -g -O2 -Wall -MT libafsql_la-afsql.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libafsql_la-afsql.Tpo -c -o libafsql_la-afsql.lo `test -f 'afsql.c' || echo './'`afsql.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../src -I.. -DENABLE_SQL=1 -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/eventlog -D_BSD_SOURCE -D__BSD_SOURCE -D__FAVOR_BSD -DHAVE_NET_ETHERNET_H -I/usr/include -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -O2 -Wall -MT libafsql_la-afsql.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libafsql_la-afsql.Tpo -c afsql.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libafsql_la-afsql.o
afsql.c:120: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘dbi_instance’
afsql.c: In function ‘afsql_dd_insert_db’:
afsql.c:583: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘dbi_conn_new_r’
afsql.c:583: error: ‘dbi_instance’ undeclared (first use in this function)
afsql.c:583: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
afsql.c:583: error: for each function it appears in.)
afsql.c: In function ‘afsql_dd_init’:
afsql.c:1007: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘dbi_initialize_r’
afsql.c:1007: error: ‘dbi_instance’ undeclared (first use in this function)

    

This is caused by a too old libdbi. Either disable sql support, or
upgrade libdbi.

  

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