Congratulations for the work and the persistence. I want to try it, but after viewing the output, I prefer upgrade from perl 5.6.0 to 5.6.1 before ...
John Siracusa wrote: >This is what I did to make it work: > >First, I cleaned out all existing source code tarballs and all existing >installations of apache in my target area (/usr/local/apache). On my >system, that looked like: > >--- > >/bin/rm -rf /usr/local/apache > >cd /usr/local/src > >/bin/rm -rf apache_1.3.23 mod_perl-1.26 httpd-apreq >/bin/rm -rf apache.tar.gz mod_perl-1.26.tar.gz apreq.tar.gz > >--- > >Next, I downloaded all the source code. Note that I'm using Joe Schaefer's >"special" versions of apache and libapreq. > >--- > >wget -q >ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/CPAN/authors/id/D/DO/DOUGM/mod_perl-1.26.t >ar.gz >wget -q http://www.apache.org/~joes/apreq.tar.gz >wget -q http://www.apache.org/~joes/apache.tar.gz > >tar -xzf mod_perl-1.26.tar.gz >tar -xzf apreq.tar.gz >tar -xzf apache.tar.gz > >--- > >Then I built and installed mod_perl: > >--- > >cd mod_perl-1.26 >perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.23/src >APACHE_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache PREP_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 EVERYTHING=1 ># I answered "y" to this, although I'm not sure why it even asked... ># Configure mod_perl with ../apache_1.3.23/src ? [y] y >make >make install > >--- > >Then I built and installed the "special" apache: > >--- > >cd ../apache_1.3.23 >../configure \ > --prefix=/usr/local/apache \ > --with-layout=Apache \ > --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a > >make >make install > >--- > >Then I *manually copied* the httpd binary out of the source directory and >into the install location. Yes, I know I just ran "make install", but the >installed version is actually different than the one sitting in the source >directory! > >--- > ># I have no idea why this is necessary, but it is >/bin/cp src/httpd /usr/local/apache/bin > >--- > >Then I built and installed the special libapreq: > >--- > >cd ../httpd-apreq >perl Makefile.PL >make >make install > >--- > >Finally, I configured apache to load both Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie >and started it up: > >--- > >cd /usr/local/apache >echo 'PerlRequire "conf/startup.pl"' >> conf/httpd.conf >echo 'use Apache::Request;' > conf/startup.pl >echo 'use Apache::Cookie;' >> conf/startup.pl >echo '1;' >> conf/startup.pl > >bin/httpd -d /usr/local/apache -f conf/httpd.conf > >--- > >And it works! I even made a simple PerlHandler that gets and sets cookies >and reads and sets parameters using Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie, and >that worked too. > >Obviously, this build process is not ideal, but at least it's working! I >hope future builds will be more "normal" :) Thanks to Joe and Rick and all >the other people who provided help and tips. > >I compiled all of the commands above into a shell script and ran it as root >on my system. The output produced by that script is attached to this >message. I didn't attach the script itself because I don't want someone to >run it and end up recursively deleting something they wanted to keep :) But >the shell script is just the concatenation of all the little bits between >"---"s above (plus "date" and "perl -V" at the very start). > >Oh, and finally, this is OS X 10.1.2, build 5P48: > >% uname -a >Darwin localhost 5.2 Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST >2001; root:xnu/xnu-201.14.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc > >with the latest dev tools installed. > >-John >
