Danny Thomas wrote:
I would be grateful if people could try the documented approach but
1) as non-root (which is always good when building software because
it makes it unlikely stuff gets accidentally installed in wrong location)
2) with a fairly clean file-system. I did a rm -rf of the http
and mod_perl directories between each attempt. Also had an
empty install directory, again in case previous attempts left
something around confounding the situation.
I did not go to the extreme of cleaning out and re-installing
between each ATTEMPT
3) trying to install in a specified location, eg with --prefix
Brian Huxtable's posting suggests the documented method worked for him
though he did not indicate that had been done with a clean file-system.
I did try adding the "MP_COMPAT_1X=1 MP_GENERATE_XS=1" he used, but
it still did not work for me.
Danny,
The first installation I did using this method was a new install of
CentOS 4 (without Apache2/mod_perl RPMs installed). It was fairly
clean. I upgraded CGI and Compress::Zlib modules per the instructions.
The 2.0RC5 build had no other Apache install to contend with.
My method was very similar to your second attempt with the following
exceptions:
- my tar doesn't have a --bunzip2 option (used -j)
- I downloaded mod_perl from
/http://perl.apache.org/dist/mod_perl-2.0-current.tar.gz/ and didn't use
the CPAN method
- I had a few more options (as you've seen)
- I installed as root
There was an issue with an installation directory in the Makefile (there
was a patch posted on this list earlier that cleaned it up) and I had to
run 'make test' twice; but for the most part it worked well.
I built 2.0RC6 and 2.0.0 over the installed Apache2/static mod_perl with
similar results as above. I dump the httpd-2.0.54 and mod_perl-2.0.x
directories before each build and untar again.
After your second post on this subject I went back to my sources and
tried to make/make test as a less privileged user and that seemed to
work well (only needed one run of 'make test'!).
About the only thing I can think to try is to grab the mod_perl source
from the URL above instead of using the CPAN module. I'm not familiar
with FreeBSD and the jail setups so I don't know if there is anything
that needs to be done to support that.
Brian
