I've created the following patch to help TestConfig.pm find the proper mod_perl httpd on Mandrake machines. Mandrake installs both a /usr/sbin/httpd and /usr/sbin/httpd-perl, and includes configuration for mod_perl acceleration with a standard (e.g. non-mod_perl) httpd in front of it.
Thanks for the patch, Michael. However I don't think we are going to submit to versatile imagination of each distro out there and hardcode all the possible variations. By guessing we may end up picking totally wrong things, so it's better to let the user explicitly specify what thing they want to use if it's not the standard name.
There is the -httpd command line option and the APACHE env var that allow to specify non-standard locations of httpd. Soon we will finish working out the one-time config feature where you will be able to tell where your httpd is once, and it'll be used since then. So Mandrake's perl will be able to pre-configure Apache::Test with that location.
However, when Apache::Test is used, it finds /usr/sbin/httpd instead of the -perl one. I've fixed this for my site, but so I don't run into this later (nor for others), I'm sending this patch to the list.
If you want to reply, please CC me, since I'm not on the list.
RCS file: /home/cvspublic/httpd-test/perl-framework/Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestConfig.pm,v
retrieving revision 1.171
diff -u -3 -p -r1.171 TestConfig.pm
--- TestConfig.pm 13 Aug 2003 19:02:51 -0000 1.171
+++ TestConfig.pm 8 Sep 2003 21:14:36 -0000
@@ -310,7 +310,13 @@ sub configure_httpd {
for my $dir (map { $vars->{$_} } qw(sbindir bindir)) {
next unless defined $dir;
my $httpd = catfile $dir, $vars->{target};
- next unless -x $httpd;
+ unless (-x $httpd) {
+ if (-x $httpd . '-perl') {
+ $vars->{httpd} = $httpd . '-perl';
+ } else {
+ next;
+ }
+ }
$vars->{httpd} = $httpd;
last;
}
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