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help with building mod-perl



hello debian-users, it's good to be here!

i could use some help getting mod-perl working.

i've just subscribed to this list, so i am aware only of its
archived state only up to '18:22 GMT Tue Sep 07'; apologies if
somebody has made a recent inquiry into this.

i'm using 'http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable' as my apt source
and have encountered the following 'dependency/conflict' problem in dselect:  

libapache-mod-perl depends on apache-common (<< 1  .3.7-0)

i want to get mod-perl working, so i reasoned perhaps the best thing
to do would be to build it myself.

i installed the apache-dev package and downloaded
mod_perl-1.21.tar.gz (from http://perl.apache.org/)

gleaning what i can from the description of what comes with apache-dev
and given that i already .debs for apache and apache-common installed,
i'm guessing the best thing to do is use apxs to build it.

so i tried the following:

perl Makefile.PL USE_APXS=1 WITH_APXS=/usr/bin/apxs EVERYTHING=1

which gives me a warning:

Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ldbm

then, upon doing a make, i get the fatal error:
 
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lgdbm: No such file or directory

what am i missing?  i tried installing libgdbmg1, libmldbm-perl, even
libgdbmg1

thank you for any help,

/iain lamb

p.s. also, can somebody tell me what the apaci executable in
/usr/doc/apache-dev is for and when / if / how to use it?



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