[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.10 fedora/rhel/centos packages

[Czanik, Péter]

Hi,

With a bit a cheating. In my unofficial syslog-ng repo I build libdbi 0.9
for EL7 to work around this problem.

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/czanik/syslog-ng310/builds/

Bye,

Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
https://twitter.com/PCzanik

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:19 PM, alex <alex01784 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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 at 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,
>
>
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
> https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:47 PM, Czanik, Péter <peter.czanik at 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/sys
> log-ng/issues/1403 for some background info.
>
> Bye,
>
>
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
> https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Evan Rempel <erempel at 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,
>
>
> Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik at balabit.com>
> Balabit / syslog-ng upstream
> https://www.balabit.com/blog/author/peterczanik/
> https://twitter.com/PCzanik
>
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