Randy Kobes wrote: [...]
- build APR first, so APR::* can link against it (the default action is to build APR::* first);
Really? Is it specific to win32? On linux with the current cvs, I can run 'make -j' which builds things in parallel and I was getting APR/*.so getting build while src/modules/perl/mod_perl.so was still not built. But I don't see problem with arranging what you did.
Without building APR first, APR::* dies at the link stage about references to unknown symbols. I couldn't see the nmake equivalent to 'make -j', but I'll look - this must be a common problem.
OK, it's probably like that at the current cvs, you just didn't see that since you didn't try to build in parallel (which speeds things up when you are on a SMP platform and not uni-processor).
- add blib/arch/Apache2/auto/APR/ to the PATH, so APR.dll can be found (perhaps APR.dll [APR.so] should be installed to $APACHE2/lib or $APACHE2/bin, as appropriate?)
That's not good. The whole idea was not to create a library which will need to be searched by the loader. The ideas was to have a plain .so which will live under perl's lib, and loading any APR/Foo.pm will first load APR.so, and then APR/Foo.so. So yes, there is a need to change the autogenerated APR/*.pm files, but you shouldn't need to mess with PATH or anything that has to do with system-wide loader.
If we were to create a separate .so (read: win32/dll), that would be mod_perl_common.so since all these things in modperl_common.* have nothing to do with apr. But we want to avoid to impose that added enormous complexity on our users.
This fiddling with the PATH was just to get the tests working (one could also use a LoadFile "...APR.dll" directive to accomplish the same thing). There's probably some internal way to do that within APR::*, along the lines of loading APR.so within APR/Foo.so, so that users don't have to be bothered.
APR/Foo.pm should arrange to load APR.pm, before it bootstraps APR/Foo.so. Then you don't need to LoadFile.
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