why hardcoded /var/log/nginx/error.log in pre-built packages?

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Thursday, 1 March 2018 23:40:28 MSK Daniel wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> can someone please explain to me why the location /var/log/nginx/error
> log is hardcoded in the official prebuilt packages?
> 
> Or why nginx -t checks if this file exists even if there is another
> location defined in the config file?
> 

Because nginx needs to log errors that happen before the config file
is parsed.

  wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev