developer directory layout setup

Hi,

I'm doing something like the following to test all of 1000s of combinations of things """easily""".
It seems to work well, figured I post it for others and to get feed back or possibly a slap in the face.
Mind you with debugging symbols we're talking Gigabytes for this.


/usr/local/software/ or anything you want

3.4.4 (gcc verions)
4.0.4
4.1.1
4.2.0
   perl
     5.8.8
       perl5.8.8
       perl -> perl5.8.8
       ....
     5.8.8-ithread
       perl5.8.8
       perl -> perl5.8.8
       perl5.8.8-ithread -> perl5.8.8
     r123456
       perl5.9.4
       perlbleed -> perl5.9.4
       ....
     bleed -> r123456 (moving)
     ....

   httpd
      1.3.36
      2.0.58
         prefork
         prefork_threaded
         worker
      2.2.2
         prefork
            bin
               apxs
               httpd
               ....
            modules
               mod_perl-r411042-5.8.8.so
               mod_perl-trunk-5.8.8 -> mod_perl-r411042-5.8.8.so (moving)
               mod_perl-2.0.2-5.8.7.so
               mod_perl-2.0.1-5.8.1.so
               ....
               mod_apreq2-2.07-2.0.2-5.8.8-2.2.2 (current release set)

               mod_apreq2-2.07-r411042-5.8.7-2.2.0.so
               mod_apreq2-2.07-trunk-5.8.7-2.2.0.so -> mod_apreq2-2.08-r411042-5.8.7-2.2.0.so (moving)
               mod_apreq2-r98765-r411042-5.8.8-2.2.2.so
               mod_apreq2-r98765-trunk-5.8.8-2.2.2.so -> mod_apreq2-r98765-r411042-5.8.8-2.2.2.so (moving)
               mod_apreq2-trunk-trunk-5.8.8-2.2.2.so -> mod_apreq2-r98765-r411042-5.8.8-2.2.2.so (moving)
               ....
         prefork_threaded
         worker
         event
      ....
      r69381
      r55381
      r22381
      2.0.x ->  r22381 (moving)
      2.2.x ->  r55381 (moving)
      trunk ->  r69381 (moving)

   mod_perl
      2.0.0-RC5
      2.0.1
      2.0.2
        5.8.7-ithread-2.0.58-worker
        5.8.8-2.2.2-prefork_threaded
        5.8.8-2.2.2-prefork
            bin
            lib
              mod_perl2.pm
              Apache/
                  Test.pm
            man
      r411042
      trunk -> r411042 (moving)
      ....

   apreq
       r98765   (apreq ver)
           r411042 (mp2 ver)
               5.8.8-2.2.2-prefork
                   bin
                   lib
                     Apache2/Request.pm
           trunk -> r98765 (moving)
           ....
       trunk -> r98765 (moving)
       2.07
       2.06-dev
       ....

   to use with DBI/Apache-DBI
   mysql
      4.0.18
      4.0.26
      4.1.20
      5.0.21
      5.1.9-beta
      5.1.12-snap

setenv PERL5LIB /usr/local/software/mod_perl/trunk/lib:/usr/local/software/apreq/trunk/trunk/lib

So if you take
perl 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.8.0 -> 5.8.8
	with and without ithreads each
httpd 2.0.47 -> 2.0.55, 2.0.58, 2.2.0, 2.2.2 of
     thats prefork, prefork_threaded, worker mpms for < 2.2.0
     add event for >= 2.2.0
     *** add the min version requirements from the documentation and eliminate the failures ****

Thats a freaking lot of combinations for mod_perl2 to support. I'm impressed.
Anyone thought of dropping support for old versions of httpd ?  I know I don't ever compile less
then 2.0.50 for testing these days which was released 29-Jun-2004 01:20 and thus 2 years old minus 1 month.




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