> From: Thom May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:17 PM
> * Thom May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : >> * Jeff Trawick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : >>> can somebody confirm my results? >>> >>> apxs -c mod_foo.c >>> >>> first breakage is due to libtool referenced from wrong directory (apxs >>> looks for libtool in apache's installbuilddir instead of apr's) >>> >>> once that is fixed, now only Apache includes are found so still nothing >>> will compile since we need to find APR includes also >> yup, been looking at this for a teeny while but work keeps interupting :/ >> The solution I was looking at was to add a new argument that would allow >> apxs to return true include and link lines, including the information for >> apr and apr-util. >> I'm not entirely happy that this is the right route to take, but can't >> currently think of a better one. > > Ok, so sander and I were just discussing the creation of an httpd-config > script, analogous to apr-config etc, which apxs or module developers could > just call at need. > Apxs could then shed a lot of code and become a program specifically to > build modules, rather than also having to be used to query build variables > and the myriad of other stuff it currently does. > > Thoughts? Just chiming in... Currently we have a dependency on perl to figure out stuff like include dirs etc, which is a bit silly. httpd-config could be done as a shell script, removing that dependency. Specializing apxs sounds like a good idea aswell. Sander
