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$ cd apache-1.3
$ cvs tag POST_AP_PREFIX_RENAME_CLEANUP .
+ * Ralf's and Martin's enhancement to the DSO support in Apache
+ to be able to support DSO under mostly all SVR4-variants, too.
+ This would be a major milestone for Apache's DSO support. It is done by
+ providing a Configuration.tmpl Rule which builds Apache into its own
+ libhttpd.so while the httpd program is just a stub. This implicitly
+ makes DSO working under SVR4 because under this platform one cannot
+ force the linker to export global symbols (to make them available to
the
+ DSO modules). But when Apache's core itself is in a shared object these
+ symbols _are_ available. BINGO! A nice sideeffect is that the usage of
a
+ libhttpd.so can be nice under other platforms, too. Oh, BTW: This is
the
+ trick Perl 5 already does to support DSO under SVR4, i.e. the idea is
+ just stolen from Perl 5 because this trick is the only portable way to
+ provide DSO support for program extensions under SVR4 ;-)
+ Patch from Ralf is coming in the next days!
+
* Ken's IndexFormat enhancement to mod_autoindex to allow
CustomLog-like tailoring of directory listing formats
