Re: mod_perl question
--On Mon, May 18, 1998 1:29 pm +0200 "Christoph Martin"
<martin@uni-mainz.de> wrote:
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> Jules Bean writes:
> > >
> > > Why do you want to compile mod_perl? Is it not included in the apache
> > > package from Johnie Ingram?
> >
> > Nope. It is not.
>
> Oops. mod_perl was part of the apache_1.2 Debian package. Did Johnie
> say why he dropped it?
I'm guessing that he dropped it at the same time as it was removed from the
apache core. But maybe not.
> > However , mod_perl is not straightforward to compile, since the
built-in
> > Makefile expects a complete apache source tree, and wants to compile a
new
> > statically linked apache.
>
> You can build mod_perl with
>
> perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=../src/ NO_HTTPD=1 EVERYTHING=1
> make
Thankyou. I'll do that.
>
> This will only build mod_perl with all features and not apache. (Look
> into INSTALL. There are some more options.)
>
> > I'm not saying this is beyond me - I can do that. I was simply asking
if
> > you'd already got something working, to avoid duplication of effort.
>
> I have mod_perl with the apache_ssl package and I could easyly make a
> separate package, but this would be compiled for apache-1.2.6 and not
> for apache-1.3beta which Johnie decided to put into hamm. Since there
> is no SSL-patch for apache-1.3beta yet. I don't know why Johnie
> decided to package a beta version of apache.
Umm... because 1.3 is about a million times better than 1.2?
Seriously, the performance enhancements are huge, as well as some
significant reworking of log handling getting rid of some IMHO serious bugs.
Also, 1.3b6 is the final release candidate for 1.3, IIRC.
Jules
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