On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote:
Apache2 is a complete piece of crap. "Portable Runtime" my ass. Was
there something so wrong with APACI? Apache1.3 built out of the box on
every system in the world.
Using ports is no better. And again, I'll take anything anyone can offer
to explain half this behavior:
I am using Apache 2.xx with no problem on several machines.
I installed it from ports with no problem.
Since you are determined to proceed against recommendations it
is hard to help you. I wouldn't be surprised if you do not
get many responses.
You know, there was a time when the handbook and man security actually
recommended NOT using the port and building from scratch -- and if you
want the finest-grained control over what you're building this is still
the case, especially when some features haven't made it into ports yet.
(Like, oh...when the whole of the ports tree goes into a freeze for a
release that's "upcoming" but doesn't have a todo list, a schedule, or
anything else on the FBSD site).
Actually, someone (two different someones) managed to answer both issues.
The ports issue was caused by stale cruft in /var/db/pkg and the fix was
to remove basically all the automake/autotools/autoconf packages and start
over. I also said "screw it" and nuked the apr-db42 port (for reasons
mentioned earlier).
Apache from ports then built fine (which meant I had an option to fall
back on, if need be).
Someone on the APR-devel list pointed out that I can do a setenv to define
CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to include /usr/local/lib to fix build issues.
This allowed apache2-non-ports to compile. However the question in my
mind that still bears answering is: why apr would FIND such a library as
installed (i.e. not fail at configure-time) but then fail to compile.
I.e. why does the APR not set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS correctly.
This is not a question for -questions, but I'm stating it here in case
anyone has similar issues.
-Dan
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