I'm trying to come up to speed on Apache::Test. I'm working from Stas's documentation at http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/testing/testing.html. My system is roughly:
gentoo linux 1.4 perl 5.8.0 useithreads=undef useperlio=define apache 1.3.28 mod_perl 1.3.28 Apache::Test 1.04 (2003/08/28 cvs snapshot)
I ended up having to patch TestConfig.pm so that it could locate libperl.so. TestConfig.pm's find_apache_module method doesn't try the /usr/lib/apache-extramodules directory... Which is where Gentoo linux likes to put it. A few searches on google suggest Mandrake may put things there as well.
I don't know the story on "extramodules"... If anyone is familiar with it please point me to any documentation or rational on why it exists and what advantage it offers. I hate finding customizations without a clue as to why they're there.
If a distro changes the default LIBEXECDIR after building apache, (and not during ./configure) it has to fix apxs to report the new value, so that 'apxs -q LIBEXECDIR' gets the right value. If it doesn't please report a bug to the distro maintainers and ask them them fix that package.
Sorry, but I don't think this approach of adjusting to each distro's will going to work. We already do too much guess-work that I'm thinking of dropping, since it does more evil than goodness.
Meanwhile symlinking libexec-extramodules => libexec should do the trick.
Anyways what follows is my best guess on a reasonable way to locate it when trying to find modules.
--- /home/ggoebel/src/mp2/modperl-2.0/Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestConfig.pm 2003-08-13 17:15:38.000000000 -0500 +++ TestConfig.pm 2003-08-28 15:17:52.000000000 -0500 @@ -637,6 +637,7 @@ my @trys = grep { $_ } ($vars->{src_dir}, $self->apxs('LIBEXECDIR'), + $self->apxs('LIBEXECDIR').'-extramodules', catfile($sroot, 'modules'), catfile($sroot, 'libexec'));
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