"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote: > > Copying the Tomcat list.... (barf barf, too much crossposting :) :) > > Pier > > jean-frederic clere at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> I'm going to do it... And if he remembers his -1, he'll roll back :) > > > > Well, I said that the problems we had in mod_webapp due to APR should be > > solved in APR not in mod_webapp. I think that not a -1 for using APR sources > > instead APR installation. It is just a matter of configure/makefiles I am > > sure > > Pier will not -1 a proposal to support both APR sources and APR installation > > in mod_webapp. > > Right _now_ the only way to be sure to build correctly, is to do it from the > sources, and so that's what I'm going to do. If, in the future, the build > and installation process for APR will allow us to build also from a possible > APR distribution, I'll be more than happy to support it... But now, it's > better to switch. > > > I am also worried with mod_webapp for Apache-2.0, what will happend when a > > internal typedef of APR comming from httpd will be used by mod_webapp and > > will > > be handled differently there because of different APR version? > > Who said that for Apache 2.0 there will be 2 different versions of APR? I > never did (I actually said quite the contrary, that it would be cool to link > against the HTTPd binary as they do in BeOS.
Now a day it is a little stricky: to link staticly against httpd we need a config.m4 to put in httpd-2.0/modules/web_app and run autoconf to rebuild the configure of httpd-2.0... > > > I am not every happy to use APR sources in mod_webapp, because I use a > > "libapr > > and --disable-shared" for mod_webapp on my test platforms (Linux and > > ReliantUnix). > > Hmmm... That's why you don't want to build mod_webapp using the APR sources? > > > It did not work because APR needs some "system libraries". To work-around > > this > > problem I have added a LDFLAGS/CFLAGS in mod_webapp makefiles for that. I > > think that the information about which "system libraries" are neeed should > > be > > provided by APR in APRVARS. > > You see? How can I get access to APRVARS if I don't use the APR sources? > Should I just wait for APR to be released as 1.0 to start working on > mod_webapp again? The _right_ way to do it _now_ is using APR from the > sources... It's actually the _only_ simple way. As Apache 2.0 does. Yes I agree. > > > I have also tried with a shared libapr, but that was some weeks ago. I > > remember MM problems and some "system library missing". > > DOH! ???? So why do you keep saying that you're against using sources... > Since all those problems are simply fixed by using them.... No, I am not against using the APR sources, I was just thinking that the time needed to change mod_webapp could have been used to fix APR. (But it is more complicated that I excepted it). > > Pier
