On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Stas Bekman wrote:
> [looks my original reply didn't make it through, trying again]
>
> Beau E. Cox wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > I am posting this message informally - this is not
> > critical (maybe not worth looking at); during
> > the mp2 make install, mod_perl.so is copied to the
> > apache2 tree (on my system) like this:
> >
> > cp mod_perl.so /usr/local/apache2/modules
> >
> > Now, if you haven't configured any apache2 modules
> > (as I haven't for my test server), the subdirectory
> > modules doesn't exist, so mod_perl.so is put into
> > the apache2 tree as _file_ 'modules' under
> > /usr/local/apache2. That's why I couldn't find it!
>
> [...]
>
> This is a known problem. I came up with this patch:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-dev&m=103847596809386&w=2
>
> But I'm afraid it's not portable and hence I couldn't commit it. Here is the
> relevant snippet of the patch:
>
> install:
> + test -d $(MODPERL_AP_LIBEXECDIR) || mkdir $(MODPERL_AP_LIBEXECDIR)
> $(MODPERL_TEST_F) $(MODPERL_LIB_DSO) && \
> $(MODPERL_CP) $(MODPERL_LIB_DSO) $(MODPERL_AP_LIBEXECDIR)
>
> Any portability gurus know how to make this Makefile's line (the one with +)
> portable? I think 'mkdir' is portable. What about 'test -d'?
On Win32, at least, 'test' isn't available. What about something
like the following:
perl -e "exit ! -d \"$(MODPERL_AP_LIBEXECDIR)\"" || mkdir $(...)
(the \" may be needed if the directory contains spaces, as Win32
might). And if one is worried about the system mkdir
availability, one can use
perl -MExtUtils::Command -e mkpath directory
--
best regards,
randy
