Here's the problem I'm trying to solve: I have a lot of mod_perl 1.x source code that uses Apache::Constants. We have just moved to mod_perl2, and I'd like to be able to compile-check the code on the command line. In our httpd.conf we are using Apache2::compat so we don't have to change all the constant references to Apache2::Const.
However, to compile check the code I can't use Apache2::compat since that seems to require that you are running in a mod_perl environment. Are there any other quick-n-dirty solutions to this problem that I've overlooked? I'm about to create MyOwnApache::Constants package which emulates Apache::Constants using Apache2::Const. It seems that Apache2::Const is usable outside of the mod_perl environment. Running perl -MApache2::compat results in the error: Undefined subroutine &Apache2::ServerUtil::restart_count called at ..../Apache2/compat.pm line 76.
