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Give details about the greatly improved and extended
shared object support in Apache 1.3
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configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for
flexibly customizing Apache.
+ *) Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support
+ The support for loading Apache modules under runtime from DSO files
was
+ greatly enhanced: First, mod_so was cleaned up and the src/Configure
+ script was extended to setup the totally platform-dependend commands
to
+ build DSO files on all major Unix platforms which support the
pragmatic
+ dlopen() interface (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS, IRIX, OSF1,
+ UnixWare). The two popular platforms HP/UX and AIX are not supported
+ because they both use a very special proprietary interface. Second the
+ modules mod_proxy and mod_mime were unbundled to be able to use them
+ independend from each other. Finally the Makefile generation stuff in
+ src/Configure was overhauled to support building shared objects as
+ clean as building static objects. Additionally the new APACI (see
+ below) provides a powerful mechanism for out-of-the-box enabling,
+ building, installing and activating those DSO-based modules.
+
+ *) APache eXtenSion (APXS) support tool
+ Now that Apache provides full support for loading modules under
runtime
+ from dynamic shared object (DSO) files, a new support tool "apxs" was
+ created which provides off-source building, installing and activating
+ of those DSO-based modules. It completely hides the platform-dependend
+ DSO-build commands from the user and provides an easy way to build
+ modules outside the Apache source tree. To achieve this APACI installs
+ the Apache C header files together with the "apxs" tool.
+
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directory layout. Any options from the old configuration scheme are
available plus a lot of new options for flexibly customizing Apache.
</LI>
+ <LI><STRONG>Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support</STRONG>
+ <BR>
+ The support for loading Apache modules under runtime from DSO files was
+ greatly enhanced: First, <CODE>mod_so</CODE> was cleaned up and the
+ <CODE>src/Configure</CODE> script was extended to setup the totally
+ platform-dependend commands to build DSO files on all major Unix platforms
+ which support the pragmatic <CODE>dlopen()</CODE> interface (Linux,
FreeBSD,
+ Solaris, SunOS, IRIX, OSF1, UnixWare). The two popular platforms HP/UX and
+ AIX are not supported because they both use a very special proprietary
+ interface. Second the modules <CODE>mod_proxy</CODE> and
+ <CODE>mod_mime</CODE> were unbundled to be able to use them independend
from
+ each other. Finally the Makefile generation stuff in
+ <CODE>src/Configure</CODE> was overhauled to support building shared
objects
+ as clean as building static objects. Additionally the new APACI (see
below)
+ provides a powerful mechanism for out-of-the-box enabling, building,
+ installing and activating those DSO-based modules.
+ </LI>
+ <LI><STRONG>APache eXtenSion (APXS) support tool</STRONG>
+ <BR>
+ Now that Apache provides full support for loading modules under runtime
from
+ dynamic shared object (DSO) files, a new support tool <CODE>apxs</CODE> was
+ created which provides off-source building, installing and activating of
+ those DSO-based modules. It completely hides the platform-dependend
+ DSO-build commands from the user and provides an easy way to build modules
+ outside the Apache source tree. To achieve this APACI installs the Apache C
+ header files together with the <CODE>apxs</CODE> tool.
+ </LI>
</UL>
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