On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Steve Hay wrote: > Geoffrey Young wrote: > > >a release candidate for mod_perl 1.99_11 is now available > >for testing. note that 1.99_11 will be required for > >users running perl 5.8.2. > > > >please grab the candidate from > > > > http://perl.apache.org/~geoff/mod_perl-1.99_11-dev.tar.gz > >[snip] > > > >Changes since 1.99_10: > > > >add a build/win32_fetch_apxs script (called within the top-level > >Makefile.PL) to offer to fetch and install a Win32 development > >version of apxs and (apr|apu)-config [Randy Kobes] > >[snip] > > > I've haven't had time to look into this yet, but when I ran "perl > Makefile.PL MP_AP_PREFIX=C:/apache2" using a fresh perl-5.8.2 build with > only libwin32 and IPC-Run3 added, it complained that Archive-Tar was not > present. > > My apologies if I'm guessing wrong, but it looked like the new > apxs-fetching stuff was kicking in (I'm on Windows XP) and needed > Archive-Tar to unpack something? > > But I'm puzzled why it would do that. I have apxs installed already > (from apxs_win32.tar.gz): my C:\apache2\bin directory contains > apr-config.bat, apr-config.pl, apu-config.bat, apu-config.pl, apxs.bat > and apxs.pl. > > Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. Hopefully I'll have time to look > at it better tomorrow.
Stas has fixed this up in the cvs version, by delaying the loading of Archive::Tar (and LWP) until they're needed. If the apxs utilities are already present, it should just exit from this script immediately, once it finds them, and continue along. -- best regards, randy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
