Re: [gnome-db] Problem with sqlite provider in 4.0.1

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 14:17 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> I wonder how the libgda sqlite provider works on Linux.  On FreeBSD, we
> are currently building it with the system sqlite3, but this appears to
> be broken.

Don't do that. If there's some easy way to do that in the libgda build
system then it should be removed. It breaks things.

>   The code assumes an older version of the libgda-column API.
> See this excerpt from gda-sqlite-provider.c:
> 
>                         gda_column_set_description (0, "name");
>                         gda_column_set_name (0, "name");
>                         gda_column_set_g_type (0, G_TYPE_STRING);
>                         gda_column_set_description (1, "nargs");
>                         gda_column_set_name (1, "nargs");
>                         gda_column_set_g_type (1, G_TYPE_INT);
>                         gda_column_set_description (2, "specificname");
>                         gda_column_set_name (2, "specificname");
>                         gda_column_set_g_type (2, G_TYPE_STRING);
> 
> That code triggers a segmentation fault in libgda when executed as 0x1
> is an invalid memory address (i.e., not a GdaColumn).  However, if we
> build libgda using the built-in sqlite, the problem is not seen.
> 
> I'm wondering what is the preferred way to build libgda, and if Linux is
> currently using the embedded sqlite, or somehow working around this API
> mismatch problem.  Thanks.
> 
> Joe
> 
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