[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.2.1 compile error

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 17:34 -0800, Eric Berggren wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile syslog-ng 3.2.1 on CentOS 5.3 which is running glib
> > 2.12.3-4, and get this error:
> > 
> > ./.libs/libdbparser.so: undefined reference to `g_timeout_add_seconds'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> > Using the older API is Bazsi's decision, but I have doubts about it's
> > feasibility.  My recommendation is building a GLIB 2.14 and installing
> > it to an alternative directory and link to it(see below). If it doesn't
> > work, I recommend trying the pre-compiled OSE installers built by
> > BalaBit, which bring all their dependencies with them. You can download
> > them from
> > http://www.balabit.com/downloads/files?path=/syslog-ng/sources/3.2.1/setups
> 
> For EL5 builds, I added the following to syslog-ng-3.2.1/modules/dbparser/dbparser.h :
> 
> 	#define g_timeout_add_seconds(i,c,u) g_timeout_add(i*1000,c,u)

Your fix is ok, I did a similar patch sitting unreleased in current git.

> 
> Admittedly, I'm not particularly familiar with this and related functions, nor am I using the dbparser component, 
> so haven't verified the behavior. Otherwise using it successfully with 2200 hosts shooting UDP at it .

Great to hear. Any ill behaviours? performance metrics, regressions?

-- 
Bazsi