Hi Matt, I'm no Mac expert (not even a Mac user, sorry), so forwarding this to the development lists of apreq and Apache::Test (the test framework)
On 07/06/2011 18:38, Matt waller wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Apache2::Request using cpan. > I'm using a mac. > The mac would like me to recompile perl and all modules using 64 bit > architecture, if it were to let me use the default httpd settings with > the default mod_perl.so > However I can start httpd using a 'preferred architecture flag' and so > use 32 bit perl and 32 bit mod_perl.so. > basically in the apachectl I have: > > HTTPD='/usr/sbin/httpd' > ARCH='/usr/bin/arch -i386 ' > > and then later I go: > > $ARCH $HTTPD $ARGV > > .. so anyway, this works quite well. > > So I've got a long way into installation, and figured out macs don't > like the location that the newly compiled libapreq2.3.dylib was left in, > so I manually moved that to /usr/lib/ > and so I'm basically one step away from being able to run the test > section of installation. > > If I manually do: > /usr/bin/arch -i386 /usr/sbin/httpd -d > /Users/mw6/.cpan/build/libapreq2-2.13/module/t -f > /Users/mw6/.cpan/build/libapreq2-2.13/module/t/conf/httpd.conf -D > APACHE2 -D PERL_USEITHREADS > it just works.. > > but without the arch flag, the tests don't work. > > So what suggestions do you have for either providing a custom path to > httpd for this module (eg; i might be able to create a script to do > startup) > or just a way to do what I want. > > Thanks for any help, > > > Matt.
