Samisa Abeysinghe wrote:
Please test, review and vote on the release artifacts for Apache
Axis2/C 1.0.0 release.
If you can bear with me for a few days, I'll try to do a bit more
testing, but here are a few initial notes:
First, the include files look so nice and clean! Thank you! On
first glance the library filenames, httpd config directives, and
general layout seem clean and clear -- again, thank you!
Second, I thought I might revise the main INSTALL and configure
files a
little to explain certain parameters to configure a bit better. In
particular, the --with-apr and --with-apache2 options mostly don't
mention
what kind of path they take: to the "prefix" that was used to install
those
packages? To their lib directories? In fact, they both take paths
to the
include directories of those packages.
I can't remember if Axis2/C actually needs anything except the httpd
include files ... maybe not. I can't see anything offhand that ldd
shows as having links to their libraries. That would be easier, if
true!
(If anything does link against their libraries, though, I think the
Axis2/C configure script might need to get paths for both their include
and library directories. For example, if someone installs httpd using
its --enable-layout option (see the config.layout file in the httpd
source
package for details), they have a lot of control over where the
libraries end up: not necessarily in $prefix/lib, next to
$prefix/include.
Anyway, my dim memory is that, in fact, Axis2/C doesn't link against
the APR and httpd libraries, so all of this is moot.)
The INSTALL file does explain that --with-apr takes the include
path for APR, however, it doesn't say the same thing about the
--with-apache2 option.
And if you run ./configure --help, you just get:
--with-apache2=PATH use apache2 as server transport.
--with-apr=PATH use apr.
Compare with the following from APR-util configure --help:
--with-berkeley-db=PATH
Find the Berkeley DB header and library in 'PATH/include' and
'PATH/lib'. If PATH is of the form 'HEADER:LIB', then search
for header files in HEADER, and the library in LIB. If you omit
the '=PATH' part completely, the configure script will search
for Berkeley DB in a number of standard places.
So if you can wait a few days, I can edit these a little bit
(or someone else can, of course!)
For example, I was able to successfully build Axis2/C with the
following:
CFLAGS=-I$PREFIX/package/include LDFLAGS=-L$PREFIX/package/lib \
./configure --enable-tests \
--prefix=/tmp/chrisd_build/axis2c \
--with-apr=$PREFIX/package/include/apr-1 \
--with-apache2=$PREFIX/package/include/apache2
Next, the samples ./configure script and INSTALL files should
explain that they need the full path to the Axis2/C include directories,
or else they should append the axis2-1.0 subdirectory automatically.
(BTW, thanks for that versioned subdir!) The ./configure --help
option just says:
--with-axiom=PATH use axiom.
--with-axis2_util=PATH use axis2_util.
Also, the main INSTALL file (not the samples one) says:
To build the samples:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/axis2c/lib/
cd samples
./configure --prefix=${AXIS2C_HOME}
--with-axis2_util=${AXIS2C_HOME}/include
--with-axiom=${AXIS2C_HOME}/include
Here's what I had to use to successfully build the samples; note
the axis2-1.0 subdirectories:
LDFLAGS=-L/tmp/chrisd_build/axis2c/lib \
./configure --prefix=/tmp/chrisd_build/axis2c \
--with-axis2_util=/tmp/chrisd_build/axis2c/include/axis2-1.0 \
--with-axiom=/tmp/chrisd_build/axis2c/include/axis2-1.0
Again, if you can wait a few days, I can edit these, or someone
else can certainly tackle it.
Third, the "make check" option isn't quite working right yet,
I think. Running in the source package, you get a segfault right
away unless you have AXIS2C_HOME=/path/to/source/axis2c/package.
(I tried running "make install" and then setting AXIS2C_HOME
to point to the installation location, but it doesn't seem to like
that; you need to pointing to the source package.) The INSTALL
file suggests you'll need AXIS2C_HOME=/path/to/install/axis2c/package
but I'm not sure that's correct.
With it set, more of the tests run fine, but I'm getting a segfault
on test/core/clientapi/test_clientapi. It occurs within the call
to axis2_svc_client_set_options(svc_client, env, options) somewhere
in test_clientapi.c. That's as far I'm likely to get for a day or
so, I fear.
But, overall, looking really nice! Thanks again,
Chris.
