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From: Ryan Bloom <rbb@covalent.net>
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To: dev@httpd.apache.org, Aaron Bannert <aaron@clove.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow statically linked support tools (htpasswd, etc)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:46:06 -0700
References: <20010927201817.L14683@clove.org>
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>
> This allows the given executable to be statically linked with the
> apache/apr libs. This was necessary to allow these executables to be
> relocatable after build-time (for example when they were distributed in
> binary form).
>
> Since these parameters generate variables that are specific to the
> support/ directory, I've created a new config.m4 script in that directory.
> (To apply, apply the patch and copy the config.m4 script into support/)
>
> I've tested this patch on the following platforms:
> Linux 2.4.3 (gcc 2.96 from RH7.1) i386
> Solaris 8 (7/01) (gcc 2.95.2) i86pc
> FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT (gcc 2.95.3) i386
> Index: configure.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvspublic/httpd-2.0/configure.in,v
> retrieving revision 1.182
> diff -u -r1.182 configure.in
> --- configure.in	2001/09/25 15:58:52	1.182
> +++ configure.in	2001/09/28 02:07:35
> @@ -257,6 +257,8 @@
>    APR_ADDTO(CPPFLAGS, -DAP_DEBUG)
>  ])dnl
>
> +sinclude(support/config.m4)
> +
>  APACHE_ENABLE_LAYOUT
>  prefix="$orig_prefix"
>  APACHE_ENABLE_MODULES

In general, very good.  I'll be applying soon (like 15 minutes), but this
is unnecessary.  The buildconf script does a find on the entire directory
tree to find all config.m4 files, so we don't have to sinclude them.

Ryan

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