Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / March 2005

hello.

Apache & mod_perl 2 are much easier to configure and install than  
versions 1.x, but even so it has taken quite a while for me to get this  
right. In case other people are considering this route, here's what  
I've learned:

1. If you want the option of trying different MPMs with mod_perl, you  
need a threaded perl (d'oh).
   Without threads enabled you can only prefork.

2. Install in this order:
    * threaded perl
    * apache
    * mod_perl
    * libapreq
    * subversion

3. Make sure Subversion and Apache are referring to the same BerkeleyDB  
libraries.

4. libapreq2-2.04-dev, the current distribution, has crashing bugs on  
os x, but the snapshots from
   http://svn.apache.org/snapshots/apreq/ work fine. It sounds like a  
new release might be imminent, btw.

5. OS X counts as a BSD when building libapreq, so to work with a  
snapshot you have to s/libtool/glibtool/
   in ./buildconf line 22.

6. If you're importing CVS repositories into SVN, you need svn2cvs,  
from http://svn2cvs.tigris.org/,
   which depends on a python library that panther lacks. There are  
instructions here:
   
http://sumorai.net/s9y/archives/226-Importing-a-CVS-repository-into-
Subversion-on-Mac-OS-X.html

Would a fuller writeup be useful, or is this too much detail already?

best

Will

ps. The sequence of incantations I ended up with is pasted in below. I  
prefer apple's perl layout, but otherwise keep everything in  
/usr/local, and I tend to have several versions of apache around, so  
they have long, unwieldy names:

# upgrade to perl 5.8.6 threaded:

    ./configure -des -Dusethreads -Dprefix='/usr'
    make
    make test
    sudo make install

# apache 2.053 with threaded mpm:

    make distclean
    ./configure \
        --prefix=/usr/local/httpd_worker_2053 \
        --enable-layout=Apache \
        --with-mpm=worker \
        --enable-so \
        --enable-ssl \
        --enable-dav \
        --enable-deflate \
        --with-dbm=db4 \
        --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1 \
        --enable-mods-shared=most
    make
    sudo make install

# mod_perl 2.00 rc4:

    perl Makefile.PL \
        MP_COMPAT_1X=0 \
        MP_INST_APACHE2=1 \
        MP_AP_PREFIX=/usr/local/httpd_worker_2053 \
        MP_USE_GTOP=1
    make
    make test
    sudo make install

# libapreq (latest from svn):

    s/libtool/glibtool/ in ./buildconf line 22ish
    ./buildconf
    perl Makefile.PL  
--with-apache2-apxs=/usr/local/httpd_worker_2053/bin/apxs
    make
    make test
    sudo make install

# subversion v1.1.3:

    make clean
    ./configure \
          --with-apxs=/usr/local/httpd_worker_2053/bin/apxs \
        --with-berkeley-db=/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.1
    make
    make check
    sudo make install