> On Sep 3, 2018, at 8:23 PM, David Cousens <davidcous...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > I recently had to find out how to setup logging while debugging a new feature > request and found the information on the wiki > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Logging fairly terse. I ended up spending a > day or two reading up on GLib which was not much use as the Glib functions > are incorporated inside macros in Gnucash. The link to the logging API > documnetation on the above page is broken and I can no longer find the page > in the Wiki with a search. The information there seems incomplete and pretty > dated. > > I had to trawl through the code in qoflog.cpp to make sense of how the > logging works. I now feel I have a basic grasp of how to control that. I > did not find modifying ./gnucash/log.conf had much effect primarily because > I didn't really have a grip on how logging woked when i tried using it and I > found it much easier to use the command line options to do what I wanted > which was to enable logging specifically at debug level for the gnc,import > module (and not anything else) and redirect the output from the > /tmp/gnucash.trace file to a logfile in my home directory which I could read > without root privileges. I also don't want to modify ./gnucash/log.conf for > development versionsas that affects my GnuCash production version logging as > well as the development whereas with the command line options changes are > limited to the built development version.r > > Does anyone have any problem with me creating a breakout page from the above > page for developers which describes the logging setup information that a new > developer needs to know both to control debugging code and incorporate > logging information in code they write while it is still fresh in my mind? > (At my age this might not be very long.) > > I am thinking along the lines fo describing the log domain setup and the log > levels as they pertain to Gnucash and the macros that relate to them that > can be used to generate debug information as well as the command line > switches and how they interact with the system.
I’ve fixed the API docs URI. I don’t think we need a separate wiki page, feel free to rewrite that one. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
