RE: Installation help [mod_perl 2.0.5/apache 2.2.17/perl-5.12.3]

Thanks for your reply....clarifications

1) Perl 5.12.3 was compiled without thread support as per the mod_perl 2.0 installation directions

2) I have tried adding the "--with-included-apr" option without luck

2) As per the mod_perl documentation for static I am not pre-compiling Apache but was allowing the mod_perl 2.0 process to handle that

3) I  was trying to match a pre-existing configuration which was using Apache 1.3 with  mod_perl 1.0 statically linked in.  While it would be preferred to keep the configuration the same, I am not sure it is mandatory.  

4) what is also interesting is if I repeat the mod_perl configuration command again, I do not get that "Can't find apr include/ directory" error, and the config proceeds fine, however the make just throws a bunch of errors which seem to be apr related...






Edward

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Moyer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:33 PM
To: Szekeres, Edward
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Installation help [mod_perl 2.0.5/apache 2.2.17/perl-5.12.3]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Szekeres, Edward <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am attempting to get a clean up-to-date install Apache with static 
> linked mod_perl (using  current stable releases for Apache (2.2.17)

I didn't see the arguments you used to compile apache in here.  But would suggest using --with-included-apr as a build option.

A couple other questions:

1) Do you specifically need threads?  If not, it is generally advised to compile Perl without them.

2) Do you need mod_perl2 statically compiled?  Most users choose to compile it as a shared object, which is widely tested.



> and mod_perl
> (2.0.5) from .tar.gz files download from respective repositories) but 
> am at a frustrating dead end.  I am looking for any suggestions as I 
> have an immediate need for this.
>
>
>
> Here are the steps I have taken (multiple times):
>
> 1)      configured a new RHEL 5 32 bit virtual machine with 2 CPUs and 
> 4G RAM using "software development" template and no additional 
> software (no httpd), default PERL install of 5.8.8...
>
> 2)      all RHEL updates as of 4/17 applied
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> 3)      download source for PERL 5.12.3, and installed
>
> a.       # ./Configure -des -Uusethreads
>
> b.      make, make test, make install  (no errors)
>
> 4)      installed from CPAN  "Bundle::Apache2" (tried both with and 
> without this step, # /usr/local/bin/perl5.12.3 -MCPAN -e "install 
> Bundle::Apache2")
>
> 5)      though was using the official  .tar.gz distribution of Apache, 
> I did run ./buildconf in the Apache source directory for consistency 
> (no errors)
>
> 6)      executed the mod_perl config in the mod_perl source directory:
>  # /usr/local/bin/perl5.12.3 Makefile.PL MP_USE_STATIC=1
> MP_AP_PREFIX=/root/httpd-2.2.17  MP_AP_CONFIGURE="-with-mpm=prefork"
>
>
>
> and this is always the result at the end, what is interesting is that 
> in all the previous config steps, there don't seem to be any issues in 
> finding and working with apr related stuff....
>
>
>
> Configuring Apache/2.2.17 mod_perl/2.0.5 Perl/v5.12.3
>
> Checking if your kit is complete...
>
> Looks good
>
> Use of uninitialized value $v in substitution (s///) at 
> lib/Apache2/Build.pm line 1330.
>
> [  error] Can't find apr include/ directory,
>
> [  error] use MP_APR_CONFIG=/path/to/apr-config
>
> (END)
>
>
>
> Thinking there was maybe a conflict with RHEL apr I did try running #  
> yum remove apr* to remove RHEL related packages....
>
>
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> repeated the whole process same result....same results with Perl 5.8.8
>
>
>
> I really can't believe that virgin stable release TARs on a pretty 
> much standard RHEL 5 installs would be this difficult to get to work.
>
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated....
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