All,
I'm of the realization that FreeBSD is a volunteer project, but there's a
recent issue I've hit, and I've contacted nearly EVERYONE I can think of
about it to try and fix, and the response I've gotten has been a deafening
silence.
I'm having trouble building apache2.2.6, it relates I feel to an
inconsitent libexpat library under FreeBSD, COMBINED with a badly made and
inconsistent apr port, and some libiconv incompatibilities. I've emailed
ports maintainers, APR developers, the general apache mailing list, and
gotten nothing.
I'm posting this to the straight-off questions list because I feel my
other attempts have failed. Can someone "sanity check" me? I'm well
aware of how to "ask intelligent questions", to document what I have and
have not done, of explaining WHY I have or have not done those things.
I'm going to send it here, in the hopes maybe someone else has encountered
this or might spot something I'm missing. If ANYONE can shed some light
here, I'd appreciate it and am willing to compensate in some small way, if
I can.
Here's what I sent to the maintainers of the above two ports:
Subject: apr versus apr-db42, as well as some other issues:
Hello,
First and foremost: I assume you're both reasonably busy professionals.
That said, I believe there's either a bug in the core operating system
here, or a bug in the way some of the critical ports are built, and I
cannot figure it out alone. It is enough of a problem that it has
confused at least one apache committer. That said, if you'd like to be
compensated in some small way for your time, please point me to your
amazon wishlists, paypal accounts, et cetera, and I'll try to do the
right thing.
I am mailing you because you are the maintainers of the apache-2.2.6 and
apr ports. If there are other people I should be mailing, please let me
know.
This is a post about building apache2.2 from scratch, not from ports --
however it raises several issues with port-installed tools that lead me to
believe they may still be at fault. I apologize in advance for the length
of this post, but having all the data is sometimes important. I believe
it's reproducable but I don't have the spare machines to try on.
First, the basics:
1) Is it possible to get some documentation in either the short or long
description as to what the difference between apr and apr-db42 is?
2) Also, is it at all possible to get some kind of documentation for the
apr-svn port (if it still exists).
3) My big problem:
(I'm going to post everything from here down to the apache-users mailing
list, as well).
I just tried to build apache 2.2.6 from scratch.
I, for various reasons of wanting to keep apache separate from other
things, for example, to virtualize my apache users, prefer everything in a
single dir -- so the ports route isn't for me.
Because apr-db42 had been installed as part of a subversion requirement
(not sure why), it caused my apache build to look in nonexistent places
for libraries.
%apr-1-config --apr-libtool
/usr/local/build-1/libtool
(the above path doesn't even exist)
To fix this (and not break the svn port), I resorted to using
--with-included-apr. The build THEN failed, claiming it could not find
the installed expat libraries, in an error exactly like what this
gentleman had:
http://www.zulustips.com/2007/10/06/problems-compiling-apache-226-on-freebsd-62.html#more-54
And in fact, this apache developer had the same issue:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg18793.html
(search the page for "wtf")
Like them, I had an installed expat, and had it listed in ldconfig -r (I
also note there's a libexpat in /usr/src but don't know what it's there
for).
(I did not copy my errors because I thought I had found a solution, but
it's the same error, I assure you).
After that,
I tried resorting to building apache with --with-expat=builtin
I then got THIS error:
/home/danm/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2
-o htpasswd htpasswd.lo -lm
/home/danm/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/pcre/libpcre.la
/home/danm/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr-util/libaprutil-1.la
/home/danm/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr-util/xml/expat/lib/libexpat.la
/home/danm/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr/libapr-1.la -lcrypt -lpthread
/home/danm/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr-util/.libs/libaprutil-1.so: undefined
reference to `libiconv_open'
/home/danm/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr-util/.libs/libaprutil-1.so: undefined
reference to `libiconv_close'
/home/danm/httpd-2.2.6/srclib/apr-util/.libs/libaprutil-1.so: undefined
reference to `libiconv'
*** Error code 1
Stop in /home5/danm/httpd-2.2.6/support.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /home5/danm/httpd-2.2.6/support.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /home5/danm/httpd-2.2.6.
prime#
So that's it. I don't know how to fix this one -- and if it's upgrading
my libiconv will fix it (but will require me to upgrade every program --
both binary and port) that depends on it, I'm willing, but pkg_info -f -g
libiconv-1.9.2_2 reports no mismatched checksums (which implies to me that
the libraries should have the functions that the header files are there).
If you need more info, please let me know.
I had to do the upgrade-everything dance a few weeks ago because something
broke libintl -- I for a few moments blamed it that problem, but other
people, on other production systems are having these issues. I'm not
about to do it again just to get a newer libiconv when I don't think
that's the problem.
pkg_info -f -g apr-db42-1.2.7_1
[snip]
Mismatched Checksums:
pkg_info: /usr/local/build-1/apr_rules.mk doesn't exist
pkg_info: /usr/local/build-1/libtool doesn't exist
pkg_info: /usr/local/build-1/make_exports.awk doesn't exist
pkg_info: /usr/local/build-1/make_var_export.awk doesn't exist
pkg_info: /usr/local/build-1/mkdir.sh doesn't exist
If this is a bug in apache, please let me know and I'll file major bug
reports there. If on the other hand, the behavior documented by the ports
installing files that report wrong locations, ldconfig reporting libraries
that cannot be found, and the like, please let me know and I'll open (one
or several) FreeBSD bugs. It's clear from the searching I've been doing
for several hours now that I'm not the only person having these issues.
Also, my uptime is nearly a year, which makes me a little old:
Uname: FreeBSD prime.gushi.org 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE
But I'm loathe to fully cvsup, buildworld, and reboot on a production
system unless we're sure it will do something (and I'm not at all sure it
will).
If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
Thanks,
Dan Mahoney
(With a Migraine)
--
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www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/1944
The WEBSITE DESIGN class that gave my fiancee a D.
--------Dan Mahoney--------
Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek
Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC
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