I recently subscribed to this list and wanted to share the problems I
encountered trying to compile / install mod_perl 1.99_14, in case it helps
someone else. Or perhaps I did something wrong and someone here can enlighten
me. I've not built or used mod_perl before, so it's quite possible that I
missed something important.
Starting setup: Apache/2.0.49 (Unix) Perl/v5.8.4 mod_ssl/2.0.49
OpenSSL/0.9.6l
I have apache 2 installed in a non default but perfectly valid location:
/opt2/apps/apache. Also, my apache runs under it's own userid, and not as
user "nobody".
I was using this configure command.:
perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/opt2/apps/apache/bin/apxs
I initially tried compiling mod_perl 1.99_14 under my user account, but ran in
to a series of permissions issues. I eventually gave up on that and next
tried a clean compile of mod_perl 1.99_14 under /tmp as root as suggested in
the make file (seemed odd, but I went along with it). But I kept running in
to compile errors to the effect that it didn't have permissions to access the
apache libraries, even though I was attempting to compile as root. I fiddled
around a lot with changing permissions and moving libraries around, all to no
avail. Eventually I solved that problem by adding the MP_APR_CONFIG argument
to the configure command thus.:
perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/opt2/apps/apache/bin/apxs
MP_APR_CONFIG=/opt2/apps/apache/bin/apr-config
It took awhile to find MP_APR_CONFIG and what it was good for. If the INSTALL
file had mentioned it, I would have found it much earlier.
Now I had mod_perl compiled, but I ran in to another problem when `make test`
couldn't access it's own files due to permissions issues. An example which I
saved.:
Cannot load /tmp/mod_perl-1.99_14/src/modules/perl/mod_perl.so into server:
/tmp/mod_perl-1.99_14/src/modules/perl/mod_perl.so:
cannot open shared object file: Permission denied
or
Can't opendir(/tmp/mod_perl-1.99_14/WrapXS): Permission denied
at /tmp/mod_perl-1.99_14/Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestRun.pm line 900
After fiddling around with permissions for awhile, I finally just ran this in
the mod_perl build directory.:
find . -exec chmod o+rwx {} \;
That seemed to work around that problem and I finally got mod_perl to build,
run it's tests, and install. I do not know what caused that problem. I think
most of those files were 750 root:root or such. Perhaps my root umask of 027
came in to play at some point. I thought I had given tar the -p flag.
I think at least one problem was due to the mod_perl make files assuming that
apache is installed / configured to run as userid "nobody". TTBOMK this isn't
required by apache and in MY OPINION isn't a great idea. Perhaps a configure
flag could be created to allow people to specify a different userid for
running apache as part of the `make test` process?
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