I would really appreciate clarification.

Greetings,

I am a (confused) newbie of fastCGI and really
appreciate clarification from someone knowledgeable.

In a file called INSTALL.AP2, it is mentioned:

  *NIX
  ====

    $ cd <mod_fastcgi_dir>
    $ cp Makefile.AP2 Makefile
    $ make 
    $ make install

    If your Apache2 installation isn't in /usr/local/apache2, then
    set the top_dir variable when running make (or edit the
    Makefile), e.g. 

      $ make top_dir=/opt/httpd/2.0.40

To me this implies that the source tree for apache is required.
But, in a document http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/dso.html I
find the following passage (the last paragraph under Implementation
section):

  The idea is simple: When installing Apache the configure's make
  install procedure installs the Apache C header files and puts the
  platform-dependent compiler and linker flags for building DSO
  files into the apxs  program. This way the user can use apxs to
  compile his Apache module sources without the Apache distribution
  source tree...

which to me contradicts with my interpretation of what's in the
INSTALL.AP2.

Can somebody please tell me definitively whether or not the
apache source tree is needed for getting fastCGI to work?

Thank you.

Regards,

Tena Sakai
[email protected]

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