So digging deeper, this just seemed odd until I found... On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:05 AM, William A Rowe Jr <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Jens Schleusener < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Just for curiosity I copied the soure code via >> >> svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.4.x >> >> src/httpd-2.4.x> ./buildconf >> >> src/httpd-2.4.x> ./configure --enable-mods-shared=few >> >> configure: loading site script /usr/share/site/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu >> checking for chosen layout... Apache >> [... many lines deleted ...] >> checking whether to enable mod_proxy_express... no (few) >> checking whether to enable mod_proxy_hcheck... checking dependencies >> configure: WARNING: "mod_proxy is disabled but required for >> mod_proxy_hcheck" >> checking whether to enable mod_proxy_hcheck... configure: error: >> mod_proxy_hcheck has been requested but can not be built due to >> prerequisite failures >> >> So it appears not the identical but a similar failure compared to that >> one I reported some days ago ("Small problem in "configure" script with >> 2.4.21"): Now "mod_watchdog" is replaced by "mod_proxy". >> >> And again: Since the option "--enable-mods-shared=few" doesn't include >> any "proxy"-related modules I also don't expect to build the "reverse-proxy >> health-check module". >> >> I am not sure if there is still a problem or if my "configure" building >> and testing is incorrect. >> > > There is still a problem, and it relates to a special case handling > of the underlying 'few' token. Found it, more updates shortly... > case "$enable_proxy_hcheck" in yes|static|shared) _apmod_required="yes" ;; *) case "$module_selection" in reallyall|all|most) _apmod_required="no" ;; *) _apmod_required="yes" ;; esac esac What is going on here is that choosing few|none actually causes every module dependency mismatch to become fatal, even if the specific modules are not requested. I believe this should be reduced in every module's test to simply; case "$enable_proxy_hcheck" in yes|static|shared) _apmod_required="yes" ;; *) _apmod_required="no" esac Comments?
