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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)
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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