fixing forced link of quicktime backend on osx_cocoa

[wxWidgets.git] / src / common / log.cpp

diff --git a/src/common/log.cpp b/src/common/log.cpp
index 5135eadaa33799aa29055274cdba6870b0bbdb6a..376a93365b7f00e4865a08d869501ba90a713d8b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/log.cpp
+++ b/src/common/log.cpp
@@ -856,8 +856,10 @@ wxLogStderr::wxLogStderr(FILE *fp)
 
 void wxLogStderr::DoLogText(const wxString& msg)
 {
-    wxFputs(msg + '\n', m_fp);
-    fflush(m_fp);
+    // First send it to stderr, even if we don't have it (e.g. in a Windows GUI
+    // application under) it's not a problem to try to use it and it's easier
+    // than determining whether we do have it or not.
+    wxMessageOutputStderr(m_fp).Output(msg);
 
     // under GUI systems such as Windows or Mac, programs usually don't have
     // stderr at all, so show the messages also somewhere else, typically in
@@ -902,7 +904,14 @@ wxLogChain::wxLogChain(wxLog *logger)
     m_bPassMessages = true;
 
     m_logNew = logger;
-    m_logOld = wxLog::SetActiveTarget(this);
+
+    // Notice that we use GetActiveTarget() here instead of directly calling
+    // SetActiveTarget() to trigger wxLog auto-creation: if we're created as
+    // the first logger, we should still chain with the standard, implicit and
+    // possibly still not created standard logger instead of disabling normal
+    // logging entirely.
+    m_logOld = wxLog::GetActiveTarget();
+    wxLog::SetActiveTarget(this);
 }
 
 wxLogChain::~wxLogChain()