[webkit-dev] Proposal to enable logging under non-systemd linux distros

[Pablo Correa Gomez]

On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 19:32 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20 2021 at 02:07:56 AM +0200, Pablo Correa Gomez via 
> webkit-dev <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org> wrote:
> >  - Rename USE_SYSTEMD to USE_JOURNALD and have a conditional check
> > which looks for elogind if libsystemd is not found, similar to the 
> > hack
> > I used for proof-testing.
> 
> This one! Do this one! We don't need two different build options for 
> systemd vs. elogind, when all we really care about is whether the 
> journald API is available.

Thank you very much! I opened a bug and sent a patch: 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232080 I apologize if there any
obvious bug, first time contributing to this project and I am still a
bit lost.

> Michael
> 
> P.S. (We might also consider adding an environment variable to
> redirect 
> all log messages to stderr. This is *almost* possible now after 
> https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/283469/webkit, but requires more 
> playing with the #if guards. Don't worry about this if you're not 
> interested in working on it. I just mention it in case that sounds
> like 
> your idea of an exciting project. ;)
> 

Unfortunately this a bit far beyond what I can do. But sounds like a
great idea if it ever gets implemented :) Thank you very much for the
good work in this project!

Pablo Correa Gómez.