On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Jacob Champion <champio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry for the post-1.6 timing on this.
Because of the withdrawal of 1.6.0 I think there is no problem making changes in the API with 1.6.1. If we had released it... but even still... > Over at httpd I'm trying to engineer > a build that doesn't require checking out APR and friends, but only depends > on files that are part of the APR installation. I think it might be simpler to check these into httpd, preferably from trunk. If ./buildconf is given a --with-apr the files could be replaced, but it wouldn't bother ./buildconf if the flag was not given. These simply don't change often enough to force the extra hassles. > httpd depends on apr_common.m4, find_apr.m4, and find_apu.m4. On > Debian-derived distros, those files are part of the libapr-dev packaging -- > but as far as I can tell, they're not included in the official builds, so my > solution isn't portable. Any chance we could get those three (plus any other > build-time helpers you think downstream projects may need to use) added to > the official installbuilddir? Yes, as far as installbuilddir might be mapped to /usr/share/apr/build-1 or /usr/lib/apr-1/build or any other schema the distro wants, this seems like a sensible approach. Interrogate with `apr-1-configure --installbuilddir`.
