Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / November 2004

I have a completely functional version of Apache running, but I¹m trying to
upgrade the system by reinstalling Apache and mod_perl to create a fresh
beginning for to better diagnose my OSX mod_perl issues. For some reason I¹m
getting a Makefile.PL build problem that I don¹t understand. I¹m getting an
³unknown option² error which looks like this:

Unknown option: 1
Usage: head [-options] <url>...
   -m <method>   use method for the request (default is 'HEAD')
   -f            make request even if head believes method is illegal
   -b <base>     Use the specified URL as base
   -t <timeout>  Set timeout value
.. (much more below)

I get this 17 times during a normal Makefile.PL command when trying to
integrate anything with the apache source code. This includes open_ssl, and
other modules. This is with virgin Apache code 1.3.29 and 1.3.33. I¹m not
sure what I¹m doing wrong. I¹ve never had an unsuccessful build of Apache
before. I reinstalled Apache on Panther once I rebuilt my harddrive and its
been working beautifully ever since. There is serious speculation that OSX
10.3 shipped with conflicting versions of Apache and mod_perl, so I¹m trying
to rebuild this with versions that are known to be compatible.

Any insight would be great. I think I¹ve read every posted webpage on mother
Earth regarding these issues, but no one seems to know the full skinny. I
promise to summarize and report back and solutions that I find.

Best,

Mark