On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 08:05 AM, Sander Striker wrote:

>> From: Jeff Trawick [mailto:trawick@attglobal.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:02 PM
>
>> It is helpful to be able to run buildconf prior to building APR. That
>> won't work anymore (ain't no ../apr/build/rules.mk prior to building 
>> APR).
>>
>> This breaks Apache, which has buildconf that first runs apr buildconf
>> then apr-util buildconf.
>>
>> I thought the point of grabbing apr's rules.mk was to be able to build
>> apr-util from a pre-installed apr.
>
> Thing is that buildconf is for developers.  Release tarballs do not
> require buildconf to be run.  If you do not run buildconf, you can
> build apr-util with a pre-installed apr.
>
> What am I missing?

i believe what he's saying is that apache's buildconf runs buildconf 
for apr and apr-util, but since configure hasn't been run in apr before 
apr-util's buildconf is run, rules.mk hasn't been generated yet, so it 
isn't there to copy.

perhaps we should copy over rules.mk.in, then have apr-util's configure 
turn it in to rules.mk (just speculating, i haven't looked at what 
would need to be done to make this work).

-garrett