Hello,
In RE to my email yesterday about the syslog functionality of log4cxx
not working on Mac OS X (10.4.3):
My system has the "syslog.h" header for syslogd logging
functionality, and subsequently upon looking for the code, there're
some tests for this file:
Using the latest 0.9.8 source the precompiler directive
"LOG4CXX_HAVE_SYSLOG" is initially defined in the "include/log4cxx/
private/log4cxx_private.h" header file, however the header file
cannot be included in other source without "-DLOG4CXX_TEST" or "-
DLOG4CXX" being added to the compiler options, else the following
message shows up:
---
#error "log4cxx/private/log4cxx_private.h should only be used within
log4cxx implementation or tests"
---
By implementation, does that mean 'whenever I'd like to use
log4cxx'? Otherwise, the following block in syslogappender.cpp,
which actually invokes the syslog() function doesn't get entered...
---
<syslogappender.cpp>
261 #ifdef LOG4CXX_HAVE_SYSLOG
262 if (sw == 0)
263 {
264 std::string sbuf;
265 Transcoder::encode(msg, sbuf);
266
267 // use of "%s" to avoid a security hole
268 ::syslog(syslogFacility | event->getLevel()-
>getSyslogEquivalent(),
269 "%s", sbuf.c_str());
270
271 return;
272 }
273 #endif
---
As a stopgap, I "#define LOG4CXX 1", and "#include <log4cxx/private/
log4cxx_private.h>" in the "syslogappender.h" header file before the
"LOG4CXX_HAVE_SYSLOG" precompiler variable gets checked. I'm
assuming there's either something wrong in the way I'm doing things,
or there's something wrong in the header files.
Thanks!
-lev
