Bug#282606: apache2: link Apache with external PCRE

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rich@annexia.org>]

Package: apache2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Apache 2 crashes when loading any module which is linked to the system
PCRE library (because Apache is statically linked to an ancient
version of PCRE internally).

There is a working patch which allows Apache to be linked against the
system PCRE:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27550#c13

(When configuring, you need to add --with-external-pcre).

The Apache developers have been totally unresponsive on this, even
though the patch works and is well-tested.  It would be nice to be
able to use Apache 2 + PCRE-linked modules under Debian at the very
least.

Rich.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C