Tom,
I never build on RedHat, I consider it a
prepackage type distribution; If the package you need is not available you are
out of luck.
If you want to build tools, go to a
distribution set up with a clean build environment: I recommend slackware or one
of these derivatives.
If this is not an option, try creating a separate
web tools directory, /opt/web for example, and build perl, apache and mod_perl
from source there.
There has been a LOT
of noise on this list about RedHat’s mod_perl 1.99, the consensus seems
to be that this out of date package should be avoided do to API changes and continuing
support reasons.
Just my $0.02 worth, your mileage may vary.
From: Tom Weber
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:53
AM
To: modperl@perl.apache.org
Subject: Basic Help, RedHat
New to this list, so I'm
sure that this has been covered, but hoping someone can point me in the right
direction. Hope this doesn't make you laugh too hard, being such a newbie.
Don't know where to turn, but don't want to abandon this project.
I've been unsuccessful at trying to get mod_perl to work on RedHat Linux. I'm
willing to write the code either in mod_perl v1 or v2, whichever I can get to
work.
I'm attempting to use these pieces of software that comes straight from RedHat:
RedHat Linux O/S: 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp
Apache: 2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Perl: v5.8.5 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
and have made two attempts at mod_perl:
mod_perl: 1.99_16: (the one that
comes with RedHat). I can't even get Apache::Cookie
to load, and a simple: $r->args
does not give me anything...... can't get $r->headers_out->add
(or set) also errors.
and:
mod_perl: 2.0.2: I was totally
unsuccessful at trying "make" this. This version failed terribly with
"make test", even some tests %failed = 200% (Huh??). Even with lots
of errors, I did install it, but only with partial success. The Apache::compat
did not seem to work neither.
Was thinking about apache 2.2.2 with mod_perl: 2.0.2, but noticed someone had
problems with that.
The part that is really frustrating was that someone built a combo
apache/mod_perl for windows that installed easily, and I was able to prototype
what I needed on there.
Thanks to anyone who can help,
Tom
