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General Bug Report: difficulty enabling USE_SYSLOG
Unprivileged user <nobody> — 1999-07-22T12:36:57Z
============================================================================ POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE ============================================================================ Your name : Jim Mercer Your email address : jim@reptiles.org Category : install: compile Severity : serious Summary: difficulty enabling USE_SYSLOG System Configuration -------------------- Operating System : FreeBSD 2,3 PostgreSQL version : 6.5,6.5.1 Compiler used : gcc Hardware: --------- Pentium Versions of other tools: ------------------------ standard -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem Description: -------------------- the flag USE_SYSLOG is defined in config.h, which is created by configure. the configure script does not know about USE_SYSLOG, however, i believe it knows about syslog in general (ie it knows if there is a syslog(), and hence can enable based on that) the documentation talks about syslog, but does not list a procedure for enabling it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Test Case: ---------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solution: --------- change configure to enable USE_SYSLOG if syslog facilities are available. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
Re: [BUGS] General Bug Report: difficulty enabling USE_SYSLOG
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1999-07-22T15:45:40Z
You have to edit config.h after running configure. I realize this is a pain. You could edit config.h.in, and configure would pick that up. Perhaps we need to split out the configure-based stuff from config.h. Comments? > > ============================================================================ > POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE > ============================================================================ > > > Your name : Jim Mercer > Your email address : jim@reptiles.org > > Category : install: compile > Severity : serious > > Summary: difficulty enabling USE_SYSLOG > > System Configuration > -------------------- > Operating System : FreeBSD 2,3 > > PostgreSQL version : 6.5,6.5.1 > > Compiler used : gcc > > Hardware: > --------- > Pentium > > Versions of other tools: > ------------------------ > standard > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Problem Description: > -------------------- > the flag USE_SYSLOG is defined in config.h, which is > created by configure. > the configure script does not know about USE_SYSLOG, however, i believe it knows about syslog in general > (ie it knows if there is a syslog(), and hence can enable based on that) > the documentation talks about syslog, but does not list a procedure for enabling it. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Test Case: > ---------- > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Solution: > --------- > change configure to enable USE_SYSLOG if syslog facilities are available. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026