[syslog-ng] 1.6.5 performance

[Nate Campi]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:39:16PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> I liked the idea, and thus went ahead and implemented it in the
> development branch. Syslog-ng generates a log message every once in a
> while as specified in stats_freq. The format of the log message is:
> 
> <45>2005-10-22T23:38:14.567570+02:00 s_udp at bzorp syslog-ng[6871]: Log statistics; dropped='program(/bin/cat)=0', dropped='tcp(AF_INET(127.0.0.1:2001))=0'
> 
> The patch has been commited to my private branch and the snapshot to 
> be generated in half an hour will contain it :)

I can't get 1.9.6 to build on my Linux boxen:

checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for GLIB_CFLAGS... -I/usr/include/glib-1.2
-I/usr/lib/glib/include
checking for GLIB_LIBS... -lglib
checking for EVTLOG_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/eventlog
checking for EVTLOG_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -levtlog
checking for static GLib libraries... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating dist.conf
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/docvars.xml
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/unit/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/functional/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslog-ng-1.9.6'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslog-ng-1.9.6/src'
if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..   -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include   -I/usr/local/include/eventlog   -D_GNU_SOURCE  -g -O2 -Wall -g -MT misc.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/misc.Tpo" \
  -c -o misc.o `test -f 'misc.c' || echo './'`misc.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/misc.Tpo" ".deps/misc.Po"; \
else rm -f ".deps/misc.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
In file included from misc.h:28,
                 from misc.c:24:
gsockaddr.h:51: error: syntax error before 'GIOStatus'
gsockaddr.h:51: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
gsockaddr.h:52: error: syntax error before '*' token
gsockaddr.h:52: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'GIOStatus'
gsockaddr.h:52: error: 'GIOStatus' declared as function returning a function
gsockaddr.h:52: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
gsockaddr.h:57: error: syntax error before '}' token
gsockaddr.h:77: error: syntax error before 'g_bind'
gsockaddr.h:77: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'g_bind'
gsockaddr.h:77: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
gsockaddr.h:78: error: syntax error before 'g_accept'
gsockaddr.h:78: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'g_accept'
gsockaddr.h:78: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
gsockaddr.h:79: error: syntax error before 'g_connect'
gsockaddr.h:79: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'g_connect'
gsockaddr.h:79: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
misc.c: In function 'g_string_assign_len':
misc.c:45: warning: implicit declaration of function 'g_string_append_len'
make[2]: *** [misc.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslog-ng-1.9.6/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslog-ng-1.9.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2

My main box is running Debian Sid so it has gcc4, but I even tried it on
a Debian Woody box with gcc 2.9.5 and the same thing happened. What is
going wrong here?

Thanks.
-- 
Nate

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