diff --git a/packaging/win32/defaults.sh b/packaging/win32/defaults.sh
index 481460d8f2..d264004cdb 100644
--- a/packaging/win32/defaults.sh
+++ b/packaging/win32/defaults.sh
@@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ set_default PGSQL_DIR $GLOBAL_DIR\\pgsql
 set_default LIBDBI_URL "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libdbi/libdbi-0.8.3.tar.gz"
 set_default LIBDBI_DIR $GLOBAL_DIR\\libdbi
 set_default LIBDBI_PATCH `pwd`/libdbi-0.8.3.patch
+set_default LIBDBI_PATCH2 `pwd`/libdbi-dbd_helper.c.patch
 set_default LIBDBI_DRIVERS_URL "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/libdbi-drivers/libdbi-drivers-0.8.3-1.tar.gz"
 set_default LIBDBI_DRIVERS_DIR $GLOBAL_DIR\\libdbi-drivers
 set_default LIBDBI_DRIVERS_PATCH `pwd`/libdbi-drivers-dbd_sqlite3.c.patch
diff --git a/packaging/win32/install.sh b/packaging/win32/install.sh
index 66008631a8..1a98bbae83 100755
--- a/packaging/win32/install.sh
+++ b/packaging/win32/install.sh
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ function inst_dtk() {
     if quiet ${_MSYS_UDIR}/bin/perl --help &&
         [ "`m4 --version | sed '1!d;s,.* [Mm]4 ,,'`" = "1.4.7" ]
     then
-        echo "msys dtk already installed.  skipping."
+    echo "msys dtk already installed.  skipping."
     else
         smart_wget $DTK_URL $DOWNLOAD_DIR
         $LAST_FILE //SP- //SILENT //DIR="$MSYS_DIR"
@@ -1094,6 +1094,9 @@ function inst_libdbi() {
                 patch -p1 < $LIBDBI_PATCH
                 ./autogen.sh
             fi
+            if [ -n "$LIBDBI_PATCH2" -a -f "$LIBDBI_PATCH2" ]; then
+                patch -p1 < $LIBDBI_PATCH2
+	    fi
             ./configure ${HOST_XCOMPILE} \
                 --disable-docs \
                 --prefix=${_LIBDBI_UDIR}
diff --git a/packaging/win32/libdbi-dbd_helper.c.patch b/packaging/win32/libdbi-dbd_helper.c.patch
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..439a293338
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/win32/libdbi-dbd_helper.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+--- libdbi-0.8.3/src/dbd_helper.c.orig	Sun Sep 13 16:34:39 2009
++++ libdbi-0.8.3/src/dbd_helper.c	Sun Sep 13 16:35:02 2009
+@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
+ 	return len;
+ }
+ 
+-void _dbd_internal_error_handler(dbi_conn_t *conn, const char *errmsg, const int errno) {
++void _dbd_internal_error_handler(dbi_conn_t *conn, const char *errmsg, const int err_no) {
+   int my_errno = DBI_ERROR_NONE;
+   int errstatus;
+   char *my_errmsg = NULL;
+@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
+     free(conn->error_message);
+   }
+ 	
+-  if (errno == DBI_ERROR_DBD) {
++  if (err_no == DBI_ERROR_DBD) {
+     /* translate into a client-library specific error number */
+     errstatus = conn->driver->functions->geterror(conn, &my_errno, &my_errmsg);
+ 
+@@ -171,8 +171,8 @@
+     }
+   }
+   else if (errmsg) {
+-    conn->error_flag = errno; /* legacy code may rely on this */
+-    conn->error_number = errno;
++    conn->error_flag = err_no; /* legacy code may rely on this */
++    conn->error_number = err_no;
+     conn->error_message = strdup(errmsg);
+     
+     if (conn->error_handler != NULL) {
+@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
+   }
+   else {
+     /* pass internal errors to the internal libdbi handler */
+-    _error_handler(conn, errno);
++    _error_handler(conn, err_no);
+   }
+ 
+ }