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Posted to apache-bugdb@apache.org by Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com> on 1998/08/13 22:20:01 UTC

Re: documentation/2848: you try it (fwd)

The following reply was made to PR documentation/2848; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
To: apbugs@apache.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: documentation/2848: you try it (fwd)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:17:51 -0700 (PDT)

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:07:16 -0400
 From: Craig Gonter <cg...@gis.net>
 To: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
 Subject: Re: documentation/2848: you try it
 
 Marc Slemko wrote:
 
 > On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Craig Gonter wrote:
 >
 > > marc@hyperreal.org wrote:
 > >
 > > > Synopsis: you try it
 > > >
 > > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
 > > > State-Changed-By: marc
 > > > State-Changed-When: Thu Aug 13 12:15:25 PDT 1998
 > > > State-Changed-Why:
 > > > This is for bug reports about Apache, not nonsensical rants
 > > > that don't actually say anything.
 > > >
 > >
 > > If you look at your the top level documentation in the apache_1.3.1
 > > distribution after it has been untarred ( ie  INSTALL) .  It does not
 > > work.  Obviously someone  put it together without verifying the
 > > proceedures or the files that were in the directory. So I must assume my
 > > clue to the documentation problem wasn't enough.
 >
 > Nearly all the time when someone says "obviously, this just doesn't work"
 > the problem is something _they_ are doing wrong.
 >
 > Since we have no magic wands to wave to know what _your_ problem is if you
 > decline to tell us exactly what you are doing and exactly what you see
 > being wrong, we are completely unable to help you.  Please do not waste
 > everyone's time unless you are willing to provide information about what
 > you think you are trying to do and what results you are getting.
 
 >From the apache_1.3.1  directory:
 
      --------------------------
 
      $ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
      $ make
      $ make install
      $ PREFIX/sbin/apachectl start
 
 
 All I did was the
 
 cedvl101:ccgont->apache_1.3.1:./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache
 
 Configuring for Apache, Version 1.3.1
 Creating Makefile
 sed: command garbled: s%@conf_serveradmin@%ccgont@cedvl101.cereon.com.
 Creating Configuration.apaci in src
 Creating Makefile in src
  + configured for Solaris 251 platform
  + setting C compiler to gcc
  + adding selected modules
  + checking for system header files
  + doing sanity check on compiler and options
 Creating Makefile in src/support
 Creating Makefile in src/main
 Creating Makefile in src/ap
 Creating Makefile in src/regex
 Creating Makefile in src/os/unix
 Creating Makefile in src/modules/standard
 
 cedvl101:ccgont->apache_1.3.1:make
 make: Fatal error: No arguments to build
 
 cedvl101:ccgont->apache_1.3.1:make install
 make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `install'
 
 The Makefile in the top level is blank
 
 cedvl101:ccgont->apache_1.3.1:ls -l
 total 528
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin   12685 Jul 15 08:31 ABOUT_APACHE*
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin    3018 Jul 18 18:50 Announcement*
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin   23527 Jul  8 07:09 INSTALL*
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin   22310 Jul 15 08:31 KEYS*
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin    2848 Mar 31 07:52 LICENSE*
 -rw-r--r--   1 ccgont   sysadmin       0 Aug 13 16:03 Makefile
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin   20540 Jul 15 13:03 Makefile.tmpl*
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin    2046 Apr  1 07:59 README*
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin    2898 May 30 08:57 README.NT*
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin   10894 Jun 28 11:42 README.configure*
 drwxrwsrwx   2 ccgont   sysadmin      96 Jul 18 19:00 cgi-bin/
 drwxrwsrwx   2 ccgont   sysadmin    8192 Jul 18 19:03 conf/
 -rwxr-xr-x   1 ccgont   sysadmin     280 Aug 13 16:03 config.status*
 -rwxrwxrwx   1 ccgont   sysadmin   38810 Jul 12 05:25 configure*
 drwxrwsrwx   3 ccgont   sysadmin      96 Jul 18 19:03 htdocs/
 drwxrwsrwx   2 ccgont   sysadmin    8192 Jul 18 19:01 icons/
 drwxrwsrwx   2 ccgont   sysadmin      96 Jul 18 19:03 logs/
 drwxrwsrwx  10 ccgont   sysadmin    8192 Aug 13 16:04 src/
 
 
 So what steps did I miss.
 
 craig