Re: [RELEASE CANDIDATE] Apache-Test-1.43 RC1

On Oct 26, 2021, at 3:28 AM, Steve Hay <[email protected]> =
wrote:
> Thanks for testing, and apologies for not getting back to you sooner.
>=20
> Unfortunately, I don't know anything about building Apache/mod_perl on =
*nix systems, and was hoping that someone else might step in with some =
answers here.

Oh.

> Do you get the same behaviour with Apache-Test-1.42, or are these new =
problems in 1.43-rc1?

Yes, I get the same behavior with 1.42. At a minimum, I need to

ln -s /path/to/my/apache/modules

inside the Apache-Test-1.43-rc1 directory and create a =
t/conf/httpd.conf.in file (as suggested by the README) with a bunch of =
LoadModule commands in it to get the httpd server to start up in any =
kind of useful state.

The resulting "make test" output still skips the tests of mod_cgi, =
mod_perl, etc., even though I explicitly load them in =
t/conf/httpd.conf.in. I think I've tracked down the reason for this to =
Apache::TestConfig's modules hash doesn't include all of the modules =
that are actually loaded. I haven't been able to figure out why though. =
I suspect it's parsing the wrong httpd.conf file. If I hack =
Apache::Test's need_module to always return 1, all tests pass, so these =
modules are loaded. This seems to be a long-standing problem for some =
(but not most) people, as evidenced by this thread from 2006:

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00321.html

> If the problems are not new then I'm inclined to leave them for now =
(assuming I can get some +1s from voters on releasing this) and look at =
addressing them for the next release. The purpose of this release was =
really just to update Apache-Test in mod_perl to the current version =
before making a long-overdue release of that.

Do you have a link that shows the changes from 1.42 to 1.43-rc1? Or just =
send me the diffs? That's probably a better way for me to evaluate the =
changes.

Thanks,
Ed