Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact dev-help@perl.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list dev@perl.apache.org Received: (qmail 89789 invoked from network); 1 Feb 2001 06:34:42 -0000 Received: from urth.org (216.161.20.244) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 1 Feb 2001 06:34:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (autarch@localhost) by urth.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA23994; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:35:58 -0600 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 00:35:58 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Rolsky To: Ken Williams cc: Subject: Re: Apache::test patch In-Reply-To: <20010201003047-r01010600-269b9cc7@10.0.0.2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Ken Williams wrote: > I kind of feel like we should blindly use $ENV{APACHE} if it's there, > because I just made up the variable for this purpose, and if the user > sets it, we shouldn't argue. It would be mysterious if you set APACHE > to something, and then Makefile.PL defaults to use something else > without telling you why. That's fine with me. > But I don't feel very strongly about it. > > What *would* be nice, though, is to check the user-typed response for > the presence of mod_perl, and give an appropriate error message if it's > missing. Doh, I meant to add that too. I'll add that (and the other change you suggested) and resend the patch. -dave /*================== www.urth.org We await the New Sun ==================*/