On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote:

You can tell ports where to install something.  We used to install
all of Apache in its own directory to make it easy to manipulate
in a system we were installing in a lot of places.   Check the ports
doc and such.

Actually, I just tried this. This is not what I want. If I go to cd /usr/ports/www/apache22, and do a make PREFIX=/some/other/directory, I do NOT get the same thing I'd get building apache from source. I get ALL the apache prerequisites installed under /some/other/dir, as opposed to the apache standards places (for example config files which would normally be in /usr/local/apache/conf now get installed in /some/other/directory/etc (the port installs them in /usr/local/etc). As a bonus, dependent packages get added to my package database under the same prefix, which shouldn't happen. (i.e. I want ONLY the apache2.2 stuff in a self-contained directory).

And the apache layout is hard coded (the only configure argument to be so):

CONFIGURE_ARGS= --prefix=${PREFIX_RELDEST} \
                --enable-layout=FreeBSD \
                --with-perl=${PERL5} \
                --with-port=${WITH_HTTP_PORT} \
                --with-expat=${LOCALBASE} \
                --with-iconv=${LOCALBASE} \
                --enable-http

In short, not at all the same. Plus, doesn't solve the issue. I have all the necessary binaries I need to build apache, it simply outright refuses to build (and also, the APR version in ports is badly broken, nearly a year old, and the APR maintainer can't even commit changes without making a PR).

Also, this may seem silly as heck, but it should definitely be POSSIBLE to build apache outside of the port (so, again, I feel "use the port" is not the right answer...there's a deeper problem here).

I mean, obviously if they've got a standard layout defined in the apache tree, the apache people expect the code to build on this OS (otherwise if the ports-patches are so necessary, we would just define the layout there too)

-Dan

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