2009/4/24 Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:25:09AM +0200, J?r?me Loyet wrote:
>
>> > Hi igor,
>> >
>> > in order to compile the patch version, I had to modify the patch
>> > because it tried to patch auto/configure. The configure is in the root
>> > directory, not in auto. Or I misunderstood something ?
>> >
>> > Then I didn't understand how the -p option works. I made the following test:
>> > ./configure
>> > /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -p /root/test/nginx
>> >
>> > but all file are relative to the default prefix (/usr/local/nginx)
>> > except the root directive which is relative to /root/test/nginx in my
>> > case.
>>
>> I don't know what I did but this behaviour is not the one I described earlier.
>>
>> The test is the following!
>> .#/configure
>> #make && make install
>> # /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -V
>> nginx version: nginx/0.7.52
>> configure arguments:
>>
>> # (cd /tmp && /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx)
>> [emerg]: could not open error log file: open() "logs/error.log" failed (2: )
>>
>> # (cd /path/where/logs/directory/exists && /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx)
>> [emerg]: open() "conf/conf/nginx.conf" failed (2: )
>>
>> # (cd /tmp && strace -e open /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -p /root/test/nginx/)
>> [emerg]: could not open error log file: open() "logs/error.log" failed (2: )
>>
>> It seems there is a bug with the default error_log and/or the prefix.
>
> A new version, that fixes startup error log prefix:
>
> http://sysoev.ru/tmp/patch.0.7.52.1.prefix
>

here the test I made:
#tar -xzvf nginx-0.7.52.tar.gz
# cd nginx-0.7.52
# patch -p0 < ../patch.0.7.52.1.prefix
# patch -p0 < ../patch.gnu_strerror_r
#./configure
#make && make install
# (cd /tmp && /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx)
[emerg]: could not open error log file: open() "/logs/error.log"
failed (2: No such file or directory)

it should be /usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log

# (cd /tmp && /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -p /root/test/nginx)
2009/04/24 14:38:57 [notice] 27082#0: using the "epoll" event method
2009/04/24 14:38:57 [notice] 27082#0: nginx/0.7.52
2009/04/24 14:38:57 [notice] 27082#0: OS: Linux 2.6.25.4dedibox-r9-smp-x32
2009/04/24 14:38:57 [notice] 27082#0: getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE): 1024:1024
2009/04/24 14:38:57 [notice] 27083#0: start worker processes
2009/04/24 14:38:57 [notice] 27083#0: start worker process 27084
root@wild:~/nginx-0.7.52# 2009/04/24 14:39:04 [error] 27084#0: *1
open() "/root/test/nginx/docs/sdfsdfsdfs" failed (2: No such file or
directory), client: 160.92.7.69, server: localhost, request: "GET
/sdfsdfsdfs HTTP/1.0", host: "wild.xxxxxxxx.com"

The file /root/test/nginx/logs/error.log is created but stays empty.
And for information it's owned by user root.

Hope this help