On 2/9/06, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I patch an apache installation on a Linux machine that was
> compiled by someone else in a non default way?
This ia tricky. This is also one of the reasons I prefer a binary
install over compiling locally from source. I presume that you want to
download the latest source and compile it with as many build switches
as possible similar to the original compile. First, I would try and
see if the build directory still exisits around from the previous
compilation. If it does, you can see from the files there what build
flags were passed to make the build.
> He has customized it a lot and things are not really in the place
> where you will find if you had a default rpm install.
Ah! This is another problem with hand installations. Uninstallation
becomes a PITA. If the person that compiled and installed the custom
apache was a good sys admin, she would have installed it under some
place like /usr/local/apache so that when you uninstalled you just
blew away the whole directory. If, OTOH, apache is installed under
/usr, you are in for a painful process.
Whatever you do, do take a backup of all the files before proceeding
carefully. Also, keep an extra copy of the existing Apache's
configurations. I suspect quite a lot of the customization happens
through the config file.
> Also is there anything I should be mind full of while compiling apache
> on SMP systems?
>
> The current one has 4 processors.
I have not compiled Apache in ages. So I do not know if they still you
Make for compilation or have moved to ant. If they use 'make -j4' to
make maximum use of your SMP capabalities.
Thaths
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