General Bug Report: difficulty enabling USE_SYSLOG

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?

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Your name : Jim Mercer
Your email address : jim@reptiles.org

Category : install: compile
Severity : serious

Summary: difficulty enabling USE_SYSLOG

System Configuration
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Operating System : FreeBSD 2,3

PostgreSQL version : 6.5,6.5.1

Compiler used : gcc

Hardware:
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Pentium

Versions of other tools:
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standard

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Problem Description:
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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.

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Test Case:
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Solution:
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change configure to enable USE_SYSLOG if syslog facilities are available.

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Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

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.

That might be a good idea, now that so much stuff is configure-driven.
Actually I'd be inclined to leave configure producing config.h, and have
config.h #include a separate file that contains the non-machine-handled
config symbols. "siteconfig.h", maybe.

Re the original complaint,

change configure to enable USE_SYSLOG if syslog facilities are available.

I do *not* think that configure should automatically turn on USE_SYSLOG
just because it can find a syslog() subroutine. Maybe the admin wants
the log sent to syslog and maybe he doesn't. I'd be happier with adding
a configure command line switch, say "--enable-syslog".

regards, tom lane