On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 03:41:59PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 08:37:33AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> >
> > > This is (I'm almost sure) because my apr and apr-utils in httpd-2.0/srclib
> > > are actually symlinks to the real locations. It may bite a few other people.
> > > Just a FYI.
Yes, it bit me.
> > I thoroughly dislike this. We have built into Apache a specific location,
> > that is REALLY annoying. I would really like to be able to do something
> > like:
> >
> > ./buildconf --with-apr=... --with-apr-util=...
> >
> > This would allow us to put these libraries anyplace.
>
> We cannot move apr. We might be able to move apr-util.
>
> The problem is that Apache's autoconf script includes pieces from APR. It
> does this using "sinclude(srclib/apr/build/whatever)". To change the APR
> location, we'd have to rewrite configure.in.
No, but you can "normalize" all known base directories
(like: HTTPD_BASE=`pwd`; APR_BASE=`cd ...wherever...; pwd`; ...)
and then only use the absolute base paths + any relative stuff, instead of
blindly relying on a "cd ../" to something which is strictly outside of
apr's responsibility.
Just my $.05
Martin
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