Garrett Goebel wrote:
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 17:15:38.0 -0500
+++ TestConfig.pm 2003-08-28 15:17:52.0 -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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