Following the discussion with Max, I got persuaded to do the shared lib
also. It required only the typical AM_LDFLAGS=-no-undefined,
and some praying and hackery, that the PATH within libtool install will
not be exhausted to build the examples binaries.
So please consider the following new files:
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/fcgi/fcgi-2.4.0-2-src.tar.bz2
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/fcgi/fcgi-2.4.0-2.tar.bz2
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/fcgi/setup.hint
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/fcgi/libfcgi0/libfcgi0-2.4.0-2.tar.bz2
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/fcgi/libfcgi0/setup.hint
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/fcgi/libfcgi-devel/libfcgi-devel-2.4.0-2.tar.bz2
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/release/fcgi/libfcgi-devel/setup.hint
Max Bowsher schrieb:
Reini Urban wrote:
Max Bowsher schrieb:
To my mind, a DLL is strongly preferable, because all packages using the
library pick up any fixes automatically, instead of requiring a
recompilation themselves.
fcgi does not build out of the box as shared library on any target.
Almost no other distro has or uses the shared library.
So why should we?
In my reasoning which is unfortunately not english enough I also
explained my private POV which makes sense at least to me.
OK, the fact that upstream does not is a fairly good reason. However,
Debian does ship a shared library, so we would not be alone in doing so
if we decided to.
I suggest that if it is reasonably easy to get a DLL to build, then we
should have a DLL, and no static library, in the distribution, because
of the eased maintenance (dependencies always use the current library,
not what was current when they were built).
If, on the other hand, it is infeasibly difficult to get a DLL building,
we could live with just a static library.
E.g. mandrake, suse and PLD have their mod_fastcgi.so without libfcgi
dependency, linked statically. debian's libapache2-mod-fastcgi_2.4.2
also. mandrake's php-fgci also, all clisp's also.
haven't looked further.
http://rpmseek.com/rpm/php-fcgi-5.1.2-1mdk.i586.html?hl=decs=fcgi:PN:0:0:1:0:2604182
Sorry, but the above is entirely wrong. mod_fastcgi does not use libfcgi
at all.
Sorry, but the above is entirely wrong. mod_fastcgi does use libfcgi
as silent build requirement, and is not listed in the reqs because it
is linked statically. Which is my point. Same for most other packages.
Please go check your facts before you cast my words back at me.
mod_fastcgi does *NOT* use libfcgi - a fact I have verified by building
mod_fastcgi successfully, without having libfcgi installed at all.
So it includes a static version.
I said most packages have no dependency for a shared libfcgi, besides
debian.
Say a standalone /usr/lib/apache2/mod_fastcgi.so for
apache2-mod_fastcgi
or /usr/lib/apache/mod_fastcgi.dll for apache-mod_fastcgi, without
libfcgi0 require, talking to a fcgi enabled ruby, clisp or php.
clisp being the only cygwin package so far which actually has it
enabled.
What are you trying to say? The above paragraph isn't meaningful
English.
Sorry. My native lingua is german.
That's fine, but could you try to rephrase what you are trying to say,
since you obviously consider the underlying point to be important.
The other reason is this: I don't only develop on cygwin,
I also run business services like clisp or xapian and swish cgi's with
cygwin1.dll, but I wouldn't bother to use the cygwin apache. For
testing
and development it's great, similar to postgresql.
So I don't want to mix a native apache-mod_fastcgi with a cygwin fcgi
using a shared libfcgi0. Makes no sense.
The above paragraph makes no sense, too.
Please do try to clarify this, as well. I'm especially confused about
how native-windows versions have any relevance to the Cygwin packaging.
I usually run fcgi's and cgi's on win32-native apache2 and lighttpd.
How is this relevant to the Cygwin package layout?
For that user scenario where native apache and/or cygwin lighttpd has
to deal with a cygwin fcgi. fcgi upgrades and breakage are dependend
on developers decisions only if linked statically.
Again, please clarify, I don't understand the problem here.
To the best of my knowledge, FastCGI is a fixed and unchanging protocol
- upgrades should be bugfixes only and should not cause breakage.
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fcgi
--
FastCGI A High-Performance Gateway Interface.
Static library and a cgi-wrapper to create fastcgi enabled applications.
End users will most likely not need that.
FastCGI is a fast, open, and secure Web server interface that
solves the performance problems inherent in CGI without introducing
any of the new problems associated with writing applications to
lower-level Web server APIs. Modules to support FastCGI can
