You can also create symbolic links for the missing directories.
 On Jan 31, 2012 11:39 PM, "Igor Cicimov" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Asuming both servers are pretty much same, ie same linux kernel and
> packages, why dont you install apache on the dev server under lets say
> /usr/local/apache2 and then transfer the complete apache2 directory onto
> prod server?
>  On Jan 31, 2012 8:41 PM, "Rob De Langhe" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> hi Apache gurus,
>>
>> we have -what I assume a rather typical situation of modern IT
>> environment- no compiler on our production servers.
>>
>> So, the building of Apache will need to be done on (duh) development
>> servers, that do not necessarily have the same directory structures as the
>> target production server where the installation needs to be done.
>>
>> When I run the "configure" utility, I know that the "prefix" option will
>> specify a different location for the installation than what otherwise would
>> be the default location of "/usr/local". But I also see that all the
>> Makefiles in the different subdirectories are generated with hardcoded
>> directory names of my development server. Directory names that do not exist
>> on my production server. So the "make install" complains that it doesn't
>> find the source files to install, since it looks for the directories that
>> exist on the development server and which do not exist on the production
>> server.
>>
>> So : how can I get the compiled set of files transferred to my production
>> server and install them there from a different source directory tree ?
>>
>> thx in advance for your reactions
>> Rob
>>
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