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Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 18:13:56 -0500
From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
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Subject: Re: httpd-2.3 --with-mpm=shared
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Jeff Trawick wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr.
> <wrowe@rowe-clan.net <mailto:wrowe@rowe-clan.net>> wrote:
> 
>     and --enable-mods-shared=all still results in (unlinked) static
>     libevent.a, libworker.a objects, instead of .so's.  Any clues?
> 
> 
> 1. the idea discussed (or not complained about) previously is to provide
> something like --with-mpm-shared={list|all}*
> 2. I haven't finished implementing it yet
> 
> so if you specify "--with-mpm=shared" you'll still have to apxs in your MPM
> 
> *unlike --enable-mods-shared, if more than one is selected then the
> LoadModule end of this would be smart enough to avoid loading more than
> one by default, and hopefully let you -Define a symbol to select a
> non-default one (e.g., -DEVENT)

should we tweak the 'help' to not show --with-mpm=shared?

FWIW; enable-mpms=shared would be the proper feature-toggle, while the
--with-mpm=choice should specify the one loaded by default.  At least by
autoconf convention.