On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 02:53:47AM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote:
> 3) mod_auth_dbm, mod_auth_db, and mod_auth_digest might not compile on
> some systems due to missing headers or libraries which are not
> correctly flagged as missing by configure. Using --enable-modules=most,
> --enable-shared=most, etc, can enable some of these modules even
> on platforms where they will not compile. If you have trouble
> compiling any of them, you can disable the offending module by
> rerunning configure and adding --disable-auth-dbm, --disable-auth-db,
> or --disable-auth-digest to the end of your configure line.
I'll focus on this next week (assuming I have time) unless someone
wants to jump in. I'm enough of an autoconf wimp to get this working
probably. If someone wants to submit a patch, I'll try to review
and commit (again, assumming no one beats me to it).
> 4) mod_ssl is still in the process of being ported to Apache 2.0 and
> is considered alpha quality. Considerable progress has been made
> on it since 2.0.22, though it still might not work on all systems and
> not all functionality has yet been enabled.
One note that Madhu (?) may not have considered is the special things
that need to happen w.r.t. OpenSSL for multi-threaded apps. Check
out flood in httpd-test. I've been mucking with the OpenSSL and
thread safety there for the past few days. I've finally got the right
voodoo happening in that code. flood is all APR-based so you could
take the code directly from there (see flood_net_ssl.c).
If no one has gotten to it by next week (see the commented out part
of ssl_engine_init for locking_callback), I'll try and commit the
relevant bits. I'd bet mod_ssl doesn't play nice with threaded MPM (or
worker for that matter). But, mod_ssl is a designated non-showstopper.
> 5) There is a known build problem when using GNU make version 3.77
> on some systems, which appears to be a bug in that version of gmake.
> Upgrading to a newer version of gmake fixes the problem.
AFAIK, this is a problem. I don't care to spend any time fixing this
when an upgraded version solves the problem. If someone wants to
submit a patch, but this is really just a broken make. We should
have a "Platform Notes" section in the README or INSTALL (where?).
It'd be nice to also add the note about the broken Linux 2.4.3 stuff
I stumbled across a few weeks ago. -- justin
