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

I wanted to follow up and say that while below seemed to be a solution, it seems to have been a fluke as my attempt to replicate has unfortunately not been successful.  I wanted to go back in enable the mod_ssl and so I repeated the exact steps, though without success.  I have no idea why the one attempt seems to have proceeded fine.

-edward

-----Original Message-----
From: Szekeres, Edward 
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: FW: Installation help [mod_perl 2.0.5/apache 2.2.17/perl-5.12.3]

FYI

Wanted to let you know I accidently stumbled on a something that worked,  I had noticed that if I ran the mod_perl config twice, the second time it ran it would not show that apr directory-not-found error, however the make would fail with some APR related errors,  however,  if I added the "--with-included-apr" option to the MP_AP_CONFIGURE option to the mod_perl config, then again ran the command twice, the first time it would fail with the directory not found error as before, the second time it ran through completely, *BUT* this time 'make' ran without a problem and the rest of the process ran error free.  I then checked with 'httpd -l' and mod_perl.c was listed in the built in module list.  I am trying to test the now running web service to see if everything functions.

Not quite sure what that all meant....but it seems I now have a static  linked version

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Moyer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 2:44 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 9:46 AM, Szekeres, Edward <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply....clarifications
>
> For what it is worth, I'd suggest building mp2 as a shared object; this approach is very well tested.  You may be able to build as a static module, but that can take some additional effort, and that build option is not as widely tested.
>
> Building as a dso is simple - 'perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/usr/local/bin/apxs', or just 'perl Makefile.PL' if your apxs is in $ENV{PATH}.  This requires that you build Apache outside the mod_perl build, but for that I usually './configure --enable-so --with-included-apr --prefix=/path/to/my/apache'.
>
>>
>> 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...