Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 25706 invoked by uid 6000); 2 Feb 1998 22:34:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 25657 invoked from network); 2 Feb 1998 22:34:09 -0000 Received: from lacrosse.redhat.com (root@207.175.42.154) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 2 Feb 1998 22:34:09 -0000 Received: from alien.redhat.com (alien.redhat.com [207.175.42.9]) by lacrosse.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA30831 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:34:07 -0500 Received: from localhost (gafton@localhost) by alien.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id RAA24334 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:34:07 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: alien.redhat.com: gafton owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:34:07 -0500 (EST) From: Cristian Gafton 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 On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote: > This is a dynamic only solution. We can't drop static support. Correct. I am saying that we shopuld have a way to do dynamic only stuff. > If you're building a dynamic only server then you don't need to list any > modules in Configuration... Well, you will list the modules you want to compile, so that some makefiles will be generated :-) > and I'm confused how autoconf helps this at > all because as you said, for the 90% case only one build is done, and > you're the one doing it (ok you or someone else at redhat). Hmm ... my error, I was talking about two different things: having apache support modules as shared libraries and load them on start time and having support for autoconf. The later is a longer and bigger project, while the shared stuff is amazingly simple to adopt (at least for linux platforms, but I am sure that with minor tweaks we will have more platforms support) Eventually, when autoconf thing will merge in, the whole dynamic stuff will be just an --with-dynamic-modules flag :-) > "supposed to work" is the operative phrase though... it's the same with > apache... modules should work, unless we change MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER. Which No, it is difefrent. Apache loading it's modules at start time is not supposed to work because the code is not in there :-) Cristian -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cristian Gafton -- gafton@redhat.com -- Red Hat Software, Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.