Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 17925 invoked by uid 6000); 3 Feb 1998 03:36:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 17919 invoked from network); 3 Feb 1998 03:36:01 -0000 Received: from valis.worldgate.com (marcs@198.161.84.2) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 3 Feb 1998 03:36:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by valis.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA17811 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:35:57 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 20:35:57 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: apache/linux modules In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Oh, and look at the FreeBSD port for how they do it without major hacking of files other than Configuration. On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Cristian Gafton wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote: > > > > This turns into a religiuos war. You defend your point at any price, no > > > matter what, aren't you ? > > > > Unlike you? > > Yes, unlike me, I am quitting this discussion. I am too a very big fan of > the "if ain't broke don't fix it" approach. I just hoped that given the > fact that currently there is a development cycle going on somebody might > listen. But it is obvious that this issue was debated to death on this > mailing list and there were no conclusions in the end. > > And the whole dispute went from using another configuration path, more > widely used in the unix world to things like switching to GPL, using too > much of the FSF things, etc. > > > If you have to edit anything other than Configuration then you're doing > > something wrong or we've got a bug in our code. Please show an example of > > where you need to edit something other than Configuration. > > - Patching httpd.h to accomodate the Linux File System standard > (installing by default in the /usr/local is broken, having apache look by > default in /usr/local/etc is also broken) > - Patching Makefile to accomodate different compiler args on Alpha, Sparc > and Intel > > So, "I am in" for using Configure. > > Cristian > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Cristian Gafton -- gafton@redhat.com -- Red Hat Software, Inc. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are. > >