On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 08:28, Steve Hay <steve.m....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 21:33, Edward J. Sabol <edwardjsa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Oct 15, 2021, at 4:26 AM, Steve Hay <steve...@apache.org> wrote: >> > As a preliminary to making a new mod_perl release, I am updating >> Apache-Test. >> > >> > Please download, test, and report back on this Apache-Test 1.43 release >> candidate. >> > >> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/perl/Apache-Test-1.43-rc1.tar.gz >> >> INSTALL says to "perl Makefile.PL -httpd /path/to/your/apache/bin/httpd", >> but I found I had to >> >> perl Makefile.PL -httpd /path/to/your/apache/bin/httpd -apxs >> /path/to/your/apache/bin/apxs >> >> or else "make test" reported a lot of "APXS (/usr/sbin/apxs) query for >> SBINDIR failed" errors. >> >> Obviously, /usr/sbin/apxs != /path/to/your/apache/bin/apxs for my httpd >> installation. >> >> Well, after I "perl Makefile.PL -httpd /path/to/your/apache/bin/httpd >> -apxs /path/to/your/apache/bin/apxs", I encountered the following: >> >> waiting 60 seconds for server to start: .AH00526: Syntax error on line 12 >> of /path/to/tests/Apache-Test-1.43-rc1/t/conf/httpd.conf: >> Invalid command 'User', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not >> included in the server configuration >> [ error] >> server has died with status 255 (t/logs/error_log wasn't created, start >> the server in the debug mode) >> sh: line 1: 39154 Terminated /path/to/perl >> /path/to/tests/Apache-Test-1.43-rc1/t/TEST -bugreport -verbose=0 >> >> The first non-comment lines in t/conf/httpd.conf are >> >> User "<my_userid>" >> Group "<my_primary_group>" >> >> I'm using Apache 2.4.41. If I try to edit t/conf/httpd.conf to comment >> out these lines or to add "LoadModule unixd_module modules/mod_unixd.so" so >> that the httpd.conf will work, my changes just get destroyed the next time >> I "make test". Frustrating. >> >> Also, It would be nice if Apache::Test would skip trying to "ulimit -c >> unlimited" if $LOGNAME != "root" in order to avoid the following message: >> >> sh: line 0: ulimit: core file size: cannot modify limit: Operation not >> permitted >> >> If only root should "make test", then the INSTALL instructions should say >> to use sudo or something. >> >> > Thanks for testing, and apologies for not getting back to you sooner. > > Unfortunately, I don't know anything about building Apache/mod_perl on > *nix systems, and was hoping that someone else might step in with some > answers here. > > Do you get the same behaviour with Apache-Test-1.42, or are these new > problems in 1.43-rc1? > > If the problems are not new then I'm inclined to leave them for now > (assuming I can get some +1s from voters on releasing this) and look at > addressing them for the next release. The purpose of this release was > really just to update Apache-Test in mod_perl to the current version before > making a long-overdue release of that. > > +1 from me, using VS2019 (v16.9.4) x64 on Windows 10, Perl 5.34.0, Apache httpd 2.4.51, mod_perl from SVN (r1894283), libapreq2-2.16, with and without LWP installed. (For me the build works just doing "perl Makefile.PL && nmake && nmake test" after setting my perl.exe and httpd.exe folders in the %PATH%.) Still looking for more +1s...