Fix regression with logging messages during wxApp initialization.

Changes in r61450 broke logging of the messages for errors occurring during
wxApp initialization, such as the message about the failure to establish
connection to the X server. Instead of being shown on stderr, wxLogGui was
used resulting in a crash. Creating wxLogOutputBest in wxLog code before
wxTheApp creation was not enough as this error occurred after wxTheApp
creation -- but before it became usable.

Fix this by explicitly asking wxLog to instantiate a safe log target in
DoCommonPreInit() if the user hadn't set up his own yet and using it until the
GUI is fully initialized.

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@61825 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775

diff --git a/src/common/init.cpp b/src/common/init.cpp
index cf366493175356e81748c95cdbbcc97ccb2dac8f..aca0a833060a0d27e5659fb80d0ac4c87fc2d176 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/init.cpp
+++ b/src/common/init.cpp
@@ -221,6 +221,21 @@ static bool DoCommonPreInit()
 #if wxUSE_LOG
     // Reset logging in case we were cleaned up and are being reinitialized.
     wxLog::DoCreateOnDemand();
+
+    // force wxLog to create a log target now: we do it because wxTheApp
+    // doesn't exist yet so wxLog will create a special log target which is
+    // safe to use even when the GUI is not available while without this call
+    // we could create wxApp in wxEntryStart() below, then log an error about
+    // e.g. failure to establish connection to the X server and wxLog would
+    // send it to wxLogGui (because wxTheApp does exist already) which, of
+    // course, can't be used in this case
+    //
+    // notice also that this does nothing if the user had set up a custom log
+    // target before -- which is fine as we want to give him this possibility
+    // (as it's impossible to override logging by overriding wxAppTraits::
+    // CreateLogTarget() before wxApp is created) and we just assume he knows
+    // what he is doing
+    wxLog::GetActiveTarget();
 #endif // wxUSE_LOG
 
     return true;