Re: Chicken and Egg problem

Patrick Galbraith wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have experienced frustrations on both Suse and Fedora core linux 
> getting apreq2 installed:
>
> /root/.cpan/build/libapreq2-2.08/glue/perl/xsbuilder/APR/Request/Apache2/APR__Request__Apache2.h:1:22: 
> error: mod_perl.h: No such file or directory
>
> On Fedora, I was lucky enough to find a mod_perl dev package with Yum, 
> as well as a libapreq2.
>
> On Suse, I don't see _anything_ with Yast the gives me the header 
> files for mod_perl 2.0.
>
> Has anyone dealt with this on Suse? I wonder why they packaged it this 
> way. I feel I've been transported back in time to the early Slackware 
> days of having to hack everything to make it work. I suppose I should 
> ask Suse this question.
>
> Thanks in advance for any work-arounds for this. I suppose one way is 
> to get the source to mod_perl (that is, if perl.apache.org ever comes 
> up!)
>
> Patrick

When all else fails, install the source, both mod_perl and libapreq2. 
Though, why SuSe names httpd httpd2-prefork and apxs apxs2, go figure.

--Patrick