Logmore patch for Motsognir v1.0.11

Version 2.0 of the logmore patch adds the following features to the Motsognir Gopher server v1.0.11:

• command line option --log allows users to specify which syslog local facility number the server will log to. You can also have it log to a regular file of your choice. Or specify /dev/stdout as the log file and pipe Motsognir’s output into whatever you want. The sky is the limit…

  This option is also available as new configuration file directive log;

• a directory specified on the command line is taken to be the Gopher root;
• standard options --help, --version; plus --license;
• NEW in 2.0autoinfo configuration directive: if set to 1, any gophermap line containing no tabs is considered an “info line” (no need for an initial i). Of course comment lines are still skipped;
• NEW in 2.0plus sign + characters in a URL are no longer translated to spaces by the server; if you want the old behaviour back, just remove -DRFC3986 from the Makefile;
• NEW in 2.0stricter validation on port number given in the configuration file;
• NEW in 2.0changes to the build/installation process:
  • the Makefile now optimizes motsognir for size;
  • new install-strip recipe further reduces the binary’s footprint;
  • everything is installed under the /usr/local subtree, unless otherwise directed (by setting DESTDIR and/or PREFIX);
  • an existing config file will not be overwritten upon installation;
  • the paths referenced in the supplied init scripts and man page are filled in at build time to make sure they match the actual installation paths;
  • GNU Make is now required.

Previous versions

The logmore1.0 patch for Motsognir v1.0.9 is still available.

How to patch

This patch will turn an unchanged Motsognir v1.0.11 source tree into a Motsognir v1.0.11+logmore2.0 source tree. Put the uncompressed patch file into the source directory, chdir to the same directory, then apply the patch with:

patch -p1 < motsognir1.0.11+logmore2.0.diff

After that, you can compile Motsognir as usual.

Test results

Motsognir v1.0.11+logmore2.0 has been built and tested on the following systems: