I'm trying to migrate a server to a new machine running 64-bit RedHat 6. The stock RedHat setup is apache 2.2.15, php 5.3.3 and perl 5.10.1. Normally I build the latest Apache 2.2 and Perl/mod_perl in /usr/local and just use that. However, this server will also use Drupal so I figured I'd build PHP locally as well.
I'm unable to get PHP 5.3 or 5.4 to link properly with the installed mysql, pcre and gd libraries (all of which are installed along with the devel packages), so I was thinking of just using the stock Apache and PHP and trying to build a newer mod_perl with the /usr/local/bin/perl which is 5.14.2. So I tried /usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/usr/sbin/apxs This compiles, but make test gives me this: Test Summary Report ------------------- t/api/server_const.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 6 Failed: 2) Failed tests: 5-6 Files=242, Tests=2614, 122 wallclock secs ( 1.30 usr 0.41 sys + 91.90 cusr 10.94 csys = 104.55 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/242 test programs. 2/2614 subtests failed. I'm not sure how serious this failure is and whether I should consider installing the resulting mod_perl.so file instead of the stock one. I can always just use the stock Perl/mod_perl but I'd really prefer a newer Perl. Alternatively, I suppose I can try and set up a reverse proxy to run the Drupal stuff on the stock Apache and mod_perl stuff on the custom Apache/mod_perl, but I expect I'll run into complications there with various virtual hosts and such. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dan
