Re: Any RPM based distro suitable for compiling & using FastCGI

On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:24 am, Marc Prewitt wrote:
> Roy P Ammeraal wrote:
> > Does anyone have success compiling mod_fastcgi on an RPM based Linux
> > distributions using the Apache version that comes with that
> > distribution? I tried Red Hat 9, but ended up 1) removing Apache that
> > Red Hat installed and 2) compiling Apache myself before I could
> > successfully compile mod_fastcgi.
> > I'm trying the same thing with Suse 9.0 using the Apache2 that the
> > Suse installation process installs for you. The special.mk for example
> > is nowhere to be found.
>
> special.mk is in the src distribution of apache.  I'm running fedora and
> need to install the httpd-devel package to get this.  This will be true
> for any rpm based system, you'll need to install the source or devel
> package of apache to get apxs and the other things needed to compile
> apache modules.

This is the winning answer :-) Thanks for the tip, once I installed the rpm 
containing httpd-devel (or apache2-devel) everything worked like a charm!

Thanks again!

Roy
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