Re: [mp2] build (make) error and 2 questions

[craig]

please see below

On Nov 12, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
Fred Moyer wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:30 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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1. Problem Description:
1.1 attempting to static-build mod_perl 2.0.4 and apache 2.2.10,  
is the
following warning right at the end of the Makefile.PL output  
worrisome?

    [warning] mod_perl static library will be built as mod_perl.a

Not worrisome, mod_perl just did not build.  Can you build as a  
shared
object rather than compiling it into Apache statically?
perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/path/to/my/httpd2/bin/apxs

Static hasn't worked for a long time in 2.x though it is on the  
infinite
list; however, the performance reasons for doing it statically are not
really an issue in 2.x
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Fred: mod_perl did not build YET?  (This warning is only at the end  
of the
Makefile.PL output, and it is phrased in terms of how it WILL be built.)
Or am I "on the wrong page" in saying this?

Of course I could build statically, but (old saying) that's not the  
swamp
I set out to drain.

Philip: but I liked the idea of a static build?  Not just for  
operational
performance, but for startup performance and perhaps for some  
possible better
integration of the symbol tables for debugging?  Are you saying that the
1.2 error cannot be worked around, and I should just give up on the  
static
build idea?  Like I had to on perl SSI's (<!--#perl...) a while back?

Would anyone like it if I hacked through problems with building  
statically,
and contributed the changes?

And can anyone please answer 1.3 even if it would be better sent to the
main Apache side?  "The pain of subscribing to mailing lists is  
proportional
to the square of the number of lists."

1.3 is --enable-debug still valid as an Apache 2.2.10 configure  
option, or is
    it completely superceded by --enable-maintainer-mode?  The  
Apache docs no
    longer mention --enable-debug.  Compiling some of the ssl stuff  
(in an
    Apache build without mod-perl) made warnings about prototypes...

Thanks,
Craig MacKenna
www.animalhead.com