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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 04:28:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>
To: new-httpd@apache.org
Subject: Re: apxs continuing problem
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000 rasmus@apache.org wrote:
> > I've been getting reports for probably the past year about a problem in
> > APXS. It seems that when it is built, the CFG_LD_SHLIB line ends up empty.
> > Something like:
> > 
> > my $CFG_LD_SHLIB      = '';        # substituted via Makefile.tmpl
> > 
> > 
> > It seems to happen here and there for unknown reasons. I haven't been able
> > to find a pattern at all in the reports, nor have I ever seen it myself.
> > 
> > Has anybody ever seen this? Anybody know why?
> 
> Oh yeah, I have definitely seen it and PHP even includes an autoconf check
> for it along with the broken apxs Redhat distributed with RH-6.1:
> 
>   if test "a`$APXS -q LD_SHLIB`" = "a" || test "`$APXS -q LIBEXECDIR`" = "modules"; then
>     PHP_APXS_BROKEN=yes
>   fi
> 
>   ...
> 
>   if test -n "$PHP_APXS_BROKEN" ; then
>     echo "=================================================================="
>     echo "WARNING: Your $APXS script is most likely broken."
>     echo ""
>     echo "Please go read http://www.php.net/FAQ.php3#4.11 and make the"
>     echo "changes described there and try again."
>     echo "=================================================================="
>   fi

Heh. I guess that I should probably insert the same checks into mod_dav.
Sigh...  The FAQ entry is good. I've referenced that from my installation
guide.

Thanx for the info, Rasmus!

Now... does anybody know why apxs is munged in the first place? :-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/