On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:37:56PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 09:43:10PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > Debian and Ubuntu packaged versions of Apache2 don't define PREFIX, > > so 'make test' output is filled with warnings like > > APXS (/usr/bin/apxs2) query for PREFIX failed > > OK - devil's advocate time. That's a packaging bug, so the test > *should* fail. Convince me otherwise?
Thanks for looking at this. Side note: the tests don't fail, they are just filled with warnings. So the PREFIX information doesn't seem to be all that necessary? First, the apxs docs at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/apxs.html actually include a list of allowed -q parameters; quoting: The query parameters can be one or more of the following strings: CC, CFLAGS, CFLAGS_SHLIB, INCLUDEDIR, LD_SHLIB, LDFLAGS_SHLIB, LIBEXECDIR, LIBS_SHLIB, SBINDIR, SYSCONFDIR, TARGET. This doesn't include PREFIX. So why does Apache-Test think it's allowed to query that at all? :) Is the availability of PREFIX documented somewhere? Second, I see this in the Apache-Test changelog: =item 1.06 - November 10, 2003 [...] use apxs PREFIX to resolve relative httpd.conf directives ServerRoot is not present [Mike Cramer] Why is PREFIX more appropriate than SYSCONFDIR for this purpose? Does Apache actually look in PREFIX before SYSCONFDIR when resolving relative file names? (I suppose I can check this if you think it really matters.) Third, if we do consider the lack of PREFIX a bug in the Debian apache2 package, it's a long standing one. I can reproduce it on Debian lenny, squeeze and wheezy, so it's been this way at least since 2009, probably longer (I didn't test older releases.) I suspect that many more Ubuntu releases have the same bug, but I only tried the latest one, 13.04. I'd expect it to be in the interest of Apache-Test to work on as many platforms as possible, even slightly buggy ones. The workaround I'm proposing for the bug isn't very onerous. Is it really the job of Apache-Test to guard the purity of Apache installations and loudly complain on those it doesn't deem worthy? -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@perl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@perl.apache.org
